What's left behind is a terrible, affecting sadness of the kind that the harrowing documentary The Fearless Freaks – with its revelations of drug addiction, mental illness and familial dysfunction – suggested might lurk at the heart of what the Flaming Lips do.
Not long after Paul Feig created the beloved cult TV series "Freaks and Geeks" in 1999, studios began barraging him with coming-of-age sex comedy scripts, even though "Freaks," with its sweet, sympathetic portrait of the perils of adolescence, was spiritually opposed to that kind of lunkheaded, frat-boy humor.
Mr. Halperin and Mr. Harris call this new-media world the "Freak Show," and they argue that navigating the Freak Show — with its focus on the personal and the prurient — will be essential to presidential hopefuls in 2008.
I have also endured having my favorite cat breed — the Persian — turned into a freak face with its barely visible nose bred into its skull, causing protruding tongues, mouth problems and eye problems.
Up: Sean Avery – "He's a freak with his skating," Tortorella said of Avery, meaning it as a compliment.
In 1982, he had launched a video game magazine called Game Freak with his friend Ken Sugimori, the artist who would eventually draw the Pokémon.
Iran could use one of the missiles that really freaked out Israel last year with its 2,000-kilometre 2,000-kilometre
Iran could use one of the missiles that really freaked out Israel last year with its 2,000-kilometer 2,000-kilometer
It was written by that carefree freak with the artsy fartsy attitude and the short black hair.
He'd taken to amphetamine use just to keep up with his schedule, and its effects had clearly taken its toll: pictures of him from that period show a gaunt speed freak, with freakishly intense eyes and tiny pants.
