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Just enjoy the view Jamie Peck peruses 15 from Titan A. E. Baltimore's nightlife 18 [insert name here] The Sexy Sirens of Scary M~vie Carmen Electra Moves From Page b y a d a m craigmiles and Song to Screens Big and Small nsert Name Here has had a ately for signs of life in their fitful childhood, suitable academic Sahara and the JAMIE PECK fun at Electra herself - some­ I only for daytime televi­ sweaty-palmed freshmen won­ ?retriever Staff Writer thing the heretofore Singled Out sion. In it's mere two-plus dering just what kind of cam­ babe (she replaced Jenny years of existence, the little pus awaits them this fall, I say Ask Carmen Electra what her McCarthy as the show's co-host) column has been booted from INH is the demon spawn. favorite scary movie is, and she'll loved. For this, she happily cred­ writer to writer. First craftily Perhaps it's the rocky child­ provide you with two answers: its the devilishly satirical sensi­ conceived by Jen "The Pen" hood, the weekly neglect, per­ The Exorcist, the Oscar-winning bilities of director and co-writer Siciliano, and passed, after a haps just the terrible two's, but adaptation of William Peter Keenen Ivory Wayans (televi­ healthy year, to suckle at my truly, truly it is a wretched Blatty's classic chillfest, and the sion's In Living Color). "Keenen oftentimes parched pap. But as thing. awful Shaq-as-genie romp went ahead and rewrote a little bit fate would have it, the bastard Weekly, the column Kazaam. The reason for the dis­ of the scene and added some child was revived once again, demands not only the creation crepancy: The former is Electra's more of my personal life into [it] after my most heinous aban- · of a new contest of its real pick, while the latter is a to make it funnier," Electra, 28, donment, in the shoulder nook guardian, comfortably jacket­ funny punchline she delivers in remembers, speaking over the of one Tracy Williams. Freshly ed in a great coat of wit, but the soon-to-be-released slasher phone from a stop in her promo­ returned from exploits along also demands a regular supply parody Scary Movie. tional tour of Scary Movie in the Mediterranean, I find INH of playmates in the form of In the opening scene of the April. alone on my doorstep with a contest entrants. Such film, due out July 7, Electra plays Scary Movie isn't Electra's little note pleading "Write me, demands are quite taxing. Drew Becker, a cartoonishly first foray into the world of act­ publish me, give me a humble Consequently, INH is often comical twist on Drew ing; she's been in the big-screen home in the Features section." lonely and suffering from what Barrymore's brief but important Nickelodeon spin-off Good So what is this poor, little we call traumatic columnar role in the original Scream. Just Burger, the short-lived WB beast? To those administrators journalistic depression. like Barrymore in that 1996 hor­ drama Hyperion Bay . and, of looking for scrap paper, sum­ ror landmark, Electra finds. her­ course, that pop-cultural touch­ mer students searching desper- see INSERT, page 17 self home alone making Jiffy Pop stone known as Baywatch. But and being taunted by a dangerous it's still more or less a new expe­ psycho on a cell phone, only rience for the rural Ohio native, Scary Movie's intentions have and a bit of a departure from her nothing ·to do with terror and early days as a Playboy pin-up Dimension Films everything to do with comedy. girl, dancer in Prince's music Frenzy: Carmen Electra fears But in addition to sending up for her life in the slasher spoof Scream, Scary Movie also pokes see ELECTRA, page 15 Scary Movie. Shannon Elizabeth Bites Off a Piece of the Success Pie

JAMIE PECK ?retriever Staff Writer

Shannon Elizabeth may not be a household name yet, but her face- and, more to the point, her body - is very likely forever etched in the minds of most red­ blooded teen males who saw last summer's gross-out comedy blockbuster American Pie. In Pie, Elizabeth, as a sexually adventur­ Chris Rothe ous exchange student named Superstar: Brickfoot guitarist Frank D'Angelo stole the show at Nadia, had relatively few lines, the band's recent concert at the Recher Theatre in Towson. but walked away with a big slice of the film's success thanks to a Rocking the Recher racy sequence in which she game­ ly pranced around in only her Brickfoot Plays Towson With Faye underwear. Now, Elizabeth, 23, is retu~­ JAMIE PECK accompanied by special guests ing to the lowbrow-humor scene ?retriever Staff Writer Greenmachine, also from Charm that made her a hot commodity­ City, and the John Faye Power her Pie act recently nabbed her an Ever since The Retriever Trip. The Recher, in case you've MTV Movie Award nomination Weekly discovered Brickfoot never been, is a youth-frequented for Best Female Breakthrough when they signed on to play at last . concert venue on York Road Performance- in Scary Movie, a April's Quadmania, we've been known for its cozy digs. There are madcap slasher spoof directed Dimension Films filling you in on why you should two well-stocked bars to keep and co-written by Keenen Ivory Body Beautiful: Shannon Elizabeth, here with Anna Faris, plays pay attention to this electric you with a fresh supply of Mike's Wayans and due in theaters July a dim teen dodging a dim killer in Scary Movie. Baltimore-based rock band. So it Hard Lemonade (only $4!), a lit­ 7. She's similarly sexbomb-ish as only makes sense that 'Brickfoot tle food stand that dispenses fast Scary Movie's Buffy Gilmore, a ence, Elizabeth was quite the ten­ view in April to promote Scary help kick off The Live Wire, the edibles, and even an in-house Miss Popularity-type in short ·nis star, but any sports dreams are Movie. When Elizabeth handles a Retriever's new feature that ATM so you don't have to ven­ skirts and bust-enhancing tops going to have to be put on hold racket currently, "I just want to do reviews area music performances ture out on the street after dark to who's among a group of dim - perhaps permanently - while it for fun. We don't keep score, by artists local and national. satiate your craving for one more high-schoolers targeted by an she works on fum projects. "I and it's just a fun hitting session. Brickfoot played Towson's equally dim killer. think I've given that part up," she Recher Theatre on June 10, see LIVE WIRE, page 16 In her own high school experi- chuckles during a phone inter- see EliZABETH, page 11