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TV Eye
Next week is a big week in network TV
"...Nicholas Brendan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), John Francis Daley (Freaks and Geeks), not to mention Cooper (Alias), are just..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Everything Old Is New Again
A Texan's in the White House, we're in a quagmire war – and 'The Rag' returns to Austin
"...recalled many afternoons when groups of hippies – or "freaks," as they preferred – would sit on the university's..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

The 40-Year-Old Virgin
A standout, a gross-out comedy that makes its audience go "awwww" as much as it goes "ewwww."
"...Credit that achievement to director and co-writer Judd Apatow (Freaks & Geeks) and his star (and co-writer), former Daily..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

In Print
The creator of TV's cult classic Freaks and Geeks and writer of another memoir, Kick Me, Paul Feig is no stranger to mining embarrassment's riches, and Superstud ranks high among his work for going so low
"...The creator of TV's cult classic Freaks and Geeks and writer of another memoir, Kick Me:..."

July 8, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Luv Doc Recommends: Fighting Brothers McCarthy
Hole in the Wall, Friday, April 22, 2005
"...a little more breathing room for everyone else. Fitness freaks on the other hand, are clearly and disturbingly in..."

April 22, 2005 Column by The Luv Doc

The Nomi Song
A documentary ode to the legendary outsider's outsider, Klaus Nomi – a singer, performance artist, and genuine human anomaly.
"...gateway for a whole new generation of artistically inclined freaks (in the best sense of the word) primed to..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two
It's time to celebrate the coming of South by Southwest and think about how we're going to pay for our roads
"...world premiere of the new Flaming Lips film, Fearless Freaks...."

Feb. 4, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Austin @ Large: Balancing the Books
The big hole we need libraries to fill
"...And save the libertarian small-government crap; these same tax freaks are quite eager for the Guv'mint to provide police..."

Oct. 22, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Dopey comedy is good fun.
"...– from cops and white-boy extreme-sport junkies to Jesus freaks and the buttoned-up kids at the Asian-American campus organization..."

July 30, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

White Chicks
Wayans brothers' comedy depends on latex and whitewash.
"...enormously ingratiating actors (as is Busy Philipps, late of Freaks and Geeks), but their antic performances fail to hide..."

June 25, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Broken Lizard's Club Dread
Broken Lizard (the comedy group that gave us Super Troopers) spoofs summer-camp slasher flicks and lowbrow beach farces.
"...always a pleasure to see Samm Levine, late of Freaks and Geeks.) There are some real laughs in here,..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Sitting Room Only
From its annual competition, Austin Script Works has picked eight new 10-minute plays for presentation in the annual Out of Ink Festival, and this year's crop is outstanding throughout, serving up some fairly serious situations and complex characters treated with sensitivity and not a little humor.
"...a pair of slightly wilder plays: Marshall Ryan Maresca's Freaks of Nature and Acts of God and Thirty-Two Awkward..."

June 27, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

TV Eye
Loving TV's losers.
"...their time, an online petition to get the former Freaks and Geeks issued on DVD awaits your electronic signature..."

April 18, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Spun
"...few ambitions beyond its spot-on depiction of crystal meth freaks on a loooong run. There’s not much in the..."

April 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Critics Poll
"...Michael Chamy: Fivehead, Hot Freaks..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Music Feature

Breaking Out
"I wanted to write a prison movie, and it felt like the Retail Rodeo was the perfect place to set it," says screenwriter and actor Mike White of his new film, The Good Girl.
"...collaboration with Good Girl director Miguel Arteta) and TV's Freaks and Geeks and Pasadena, explains that he "wanted to..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Gay Prude Parade
Inaugural Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce parade scorns Saran-Wrap tops and dildo costumes. Can you imagine?
"...think of gay parades, they think of all the freaks and things you see in the media and on..."

June 7, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Jason X
Although the serial killer Jason has been cryogenically frozen at the start of this 10th outing, the hockey-masked one ends up defrosting on a spaceship in the year 2455.
"...13th boogeyman Jason Voorhees from Scott Bowles' recent autobiography, Freaks Like Me: Confessions of a Movie Psycho). SB: So..."

May 3, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Slackers
"...Angela's oversexed, vibrator-happy roommate. Segel (of the late, lamented Freaks and Geeks) strikes a goofy, likable note but doesn't..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Not Another Teen Movie
"...to see a likable young actor like Levine (of Freaks and Geeks) pulling a paycheck as an Asian “wannabe”..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

TV Eye
Belinda Acosta picks Emmy winners.
"...for a comedy series: "Pilot," Ed; "Discos and Dragons," Freaks and Geeks; "Bowling," Malcolm in the Middle; "Easy Come,..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Dude, Where's My Car?
"...on such generally inspired television work as Felicity and Freaks and Geeks stumbles badly here, directing with a leaden,..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

TV Eye
Emmy Awards wrap-up, plus the skinny on Buffy the Vampire Slayer's season premiere and Live Free or Die, part of PBS' POV documentary series.
"...Emmy went to Will & Grace. Clare symbolically picked Freaks and Geeks for outstanding drama, and predicted that Emmy..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Chuck & Buck
"...written and produced numerous episodes of Dawson's Creek and Freaks and Geeks. The other co-star, Chris Weitz, is also..."

July 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Devil-Doll
"...line of killer dolls. The film is directed by Freaks auteur Tod Browning and co-scripted by Greed's baroque genius..."

Jan. 6, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rock Around the Biological Clock
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
"...too smoky, it's too crowded. There's a bunch of freaks on mushrooms moshing. I wanna stage-dive and I don't..."

May 7, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Jesus Gonna Be Here
Johnny Toxic
"...La Zona Rosa to hold a few hundred drum freaks, plus some fans of Frank Zappa and Missing Persons..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Kurt and Courtney
"...to be one of the world's most accomplished control freaks. No surprise there, but Broomfield uncovers harrowing, tape-recorded messages..."

April 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beautiful Loser
Keith Ferguson: No Apologies, No Regrets
"...hysterical if we got together: `Let's put these two freaks, these two mutants together.' Johnny flipped out. He never..."

May 9, 1997 Music Feature by Josh Alan Friedman

Postcards from the Fringe
Guerilla Media Collective Searches For the D.I.Y. Truth
"...reporting back from temporary autonomous zones where riot nrrds, freaks, weird scientists, and other strange attractions run amok," he..."

Feb. 28, 1997 Screens Feature by Brad King

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