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...might say that patheticism stands to notions of high culture (an ever imperiled growth in the United States) rather as the antics of Ren, Stimpy, Beavis, Butt-head and their pals do to those Edwardian gents in four-button ecru linen jackets who are seen contemplating San Miniato in Merchant-Ivory movies. To be a patheticist is to have more or less given up. It is to have made the discovery, always startling to the young, that parents lie, that politicians cheat, that moral authorities are hypocritical, that human society is one big sucking morass of dreck, and that...
...Mosbacher and his wife Georgette, chat among the guests, who included eminence grise Pete Peterson and Sally Jessy Raphael, variously covered Somalia and Bosnia -- and, eventually, Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern. Another guest, the woman who edits both Limbaugh and Stern (as well as Mrs. Mosbacher and Beavis and Butt-head) for Pocket Books, came under attack for publishing Stern's unseemliness. His book, Private Parts, in addition to autobiographical particulars and his not-exactly-progressive views on social issues, flaunts his low-down obsession with sexuality. "You should be ashamed," said a very powerful entertainment executive who has made...
...either. A former reporter for the National Enquirer, she joined Simon & Schuster in 1988 without a lick of book-publishing experience. Yet she showed a nose for hot celebrities, bringing in books by Kathie Lee Gifford, Hollywood executive Dawn Steel and even (her next project) MTV superstars Beavis and Butt-head. To admirers, Regan is a passionate editor with keen commercial instincts; to detractors, an abrasive publicity hound; to readers of gossip columns, the most entertaining book editor in New York City. Three years ago she spent five hours in jail after an argument with a police officer...
Almost immediately his fate was appropriated by columnists and talk-show hosts, who compared Shingledecker with the five-year-old alleged to have been under the influence of MTV's Beavis and Butt-head cartoon when he started a fatal fire. And on Capitol Hill, Shingledecker haunted a long-scheduled Commerce Committee hearing on screen violence, where Attorney General Janet Reno took off after a brace of entertainment executives...
Some of the rides are almost mystical. In Virtual Adventures, by Iwerks Entertainment, you glide underwater to rescue rare eggs hatched by a benevolent Loch Ness creature. The other games are a mix of Captain Kirk and Beavis and Butt-head; this one is Barney...