Word: teen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rage: Carrie 2 is a decidedly unnecessary movie that surely was made only to cash in on the revived popularity of teen slasher flicks in the post Scream age. But even the teen audience may not fall for this uninspired and unoriginal clunker of a film...
...first time and then make awkward references to the predecessor. The attempt at imitation fails: Carrie 2 lacks the frightening sense of isolation and revenge that made Carrie what it was. Worse, even the painful high school culture illustrated here was portrayed more convincingly in other very recent teen films like Varsity Blues and She's All That...
...talk, at first, was all about policy--Texas Governor George W. Bush holding forth in front of 10 Florida moneymen. But the visitors at this mid-January luncheon in the Governor's mansion in Austin hadn't come to discuss ways to improve education or reduce teen pregnancy. They were there to support a Bush campaign for President, and some were worried about his resolve. Recent news reports suggested the Governor might be having second thoughts about putting his wife Laura and their twin 17-year-old daughters through the media onslaught of a campaign. "We're ready to work...
...books inform their frantic parents, eager to test authority's limits. In other words, they have an affinity for Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Now that a young writer-director named Roger Kumble has turned Pierre Laclos's malevolent, much adapted minor masterpiece into a nastily assured teen flick, one has to wonder why it took so long for somebody to age-down its louche protagonists and update its setting...
...ride on the St. Charles Avenue streetcar takes visitors toward the French Quarter. The renowned Milton H. Latter Memorial Library at Soniat and St. Charles Avenue, which is on the way, is where Toole shelved books as a teen. With its crystal chandeliers, opulent ceiling murals and manicured grounds, this library takes reading to new heights of elegance...