You'll recall that brothers Ryan and Alex must fight their way across River City to save Ryan's ladyfriend Cyndi from the evil cross-town rival, Slick.
"There is an evil in this town," said C. M. Manley, 68, pastor of New Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church.
After all, it wouldn't have James Stewart as the beleaguered George, who meant to see the world but found himself trapped in his hometown; Donna Reed as his perfect wife, Mary Henry Traverss as George's bumbling guardian angel, Clarence Thomas Mitchelll as the forgetful Uncle Billy; or Lionel Barrymore as Henry Potter, the richest and most evil man in town.
Medieval mystery plays often treated the devil as a comic character rather than God's terrifying cosmic adversary, and Jack Nicholson's film-stealing performance as Daryl Van Horne in the 1987 screen adaptation of John Updike's novel was heavy on the humorous side of being the personification of evil in small town America.
"Not just for the mythology and evil coming to town, but Ichabod seeing the rest of the world is just a fascinating thing to do," Orci said.
In "Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV," which opens today at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, an explosion in Tromaville creates a parallel universe in which Toxie and his evil twin, Noxie (from the town of Amortville), accidentally change places.
The lowly Giants with Eli Manning's evil twin even came to town and beat us up and suddenly the kitties were mathematically eliminated.
Congressional leaders have been using apocalyptic rhetoric about angry "mobs" "un-American" protestors and "evil-mongers" at town halls because they know that voter concerns about spending may not only derail the "public option" in health care reform but could turn into a referendum on our real problems our crushing burden of government and the politicians who defend the status quo.
The rumour that evil spirits possessed the town stuck, and today the townspeople commemorate the event by crafting weird costumes and getting drunk.
