Word: weirdness
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Carol is "allergic to the 20th century," and Safe tells of her attempts to understand and conquer her condition at Wrenwood, a "chemical-free zone" in New Mexico. Writer-director Todd Haynes, who made the importantly weird short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story and Poison, a minimalist epic of sex and longing in the age of aids, again has decay and estrangement in mind. This scarily confident, beautifully acted study is gnomic and anomic, like a TV disease movie made in an alternate universe. And in Moore's pretty, aggrieved face, Haynes finds the ideal vessel for his concerns...
...starts to pack his room, and suddenly announces, "You want to see what I really have that's weird?" Out of a box, Geller pulls confetti, red cellophane circles and rubber stencils...
...really weird going back to Harvard seeing how screwed up the African-American Studies Department was," Wilson says. "It was very disappointing to come see the Afro-Am department in a very shaky state...
...hosts of the new batch of shows seem unconcerned about any negative impact of their efforts. When Miller was hired as host of The Other Side, he recalls, "I made a deal with them. I said, 'You keep any sleazy stuff out, and I'll do all the weird stuff you want.'" Miller has obviously kept his end of the bargain. --With reporting by Hunter Whitney/Los Angeles and Lawrence Mondi/New York
...current crop, Mel has rearranged the lights and tried different containers. He began with 18 plants and is now down to one. Well, actually two. "There's another weird plant that's growing in there that isn't pot," Mel says. Compared to the forest in Johnny's closet, Mel's closet looks like it has been clearcut. Next to one sickly plant is a pencil, stuck in the soil "to support the plant so it won't tip over...