October 22, 1999
Hollywood's Gross-Out Comedies: Cultural Crisis or Festive Freedom?
When the box-office returns came in for the blockbuster summer of 1999, the pun was inevitable: Gross-out equaled big grosses. Filthy lucre rained down on a series of motion pictures that seemed bent on lowering audience brows to near-Neanderthal levels: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; Big Daddy; South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut; and American Pie.
Although viewers on the crankier side of the 14-to-24 demographic averted their eyes in favor of tea
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