Radical Yells: Natural Movie Teens

CARRIE WHITE
Played by Sissy Spacek in Carrie (1976)

the same parts campy and creepy, the disgust of high school has never been captured more perfectly than in the image of Carrie, covered in pig's blood, exacting her supernatural revenge on the bullies who beset her for being different. Spacek even got an Oscar nod for her role, an uncommon feat for both a teen movie and a disgust movie.

TRACY FREELAND
Played by Evan Rachel Wood in Thirteen (2003)

Thirteen's good girl-turned-wild child is every parent's worst nightmare. The scariest part? Wood's out-of-control role was co-written by her 15-year-old co-star Nikki Reed, based on her own life experiences.

WADE WALKER
Played by Johnny Depp in Cry-Baby (1990)

Dubbed ''Cry-Baby'' for his facility to shed a single tear, the motorcycle-riding spawn of Elvis (Depp) falls for a girl from a rival group known as the ''squares'' (she's clean-cut and preppy; he's greasy and wears leather) and will stop at nothing — counting breaking out in a doo-wop number while in jive — to be through her.

VANESSA LUTZ
Played by Reese Witherspoon in Freeway (1996)

Reese Witherspoon is closely the sort of performer you could imagine playing a naïve, sweet Little Red Riding Hood. Only in this thriller — based loosely on the classic fairytale — Reese plays against type as an illiterate, trailer-trash Red Riding Hood who hitches a ride from a big bad serial killer (Kiefer Sutherland) in an attempt to get away from community workers.

REBECCA AND ENID
Played by Scarlett Johanssen (left) & Thora Birch in Ghost World (2001)

being before Juno hit the girl-snark jackpot, Ghost World's Rebecca and Enid had already mastered the arts of talking trash, rocking vintage duds, and normally continuing their eyes at the world.

JUNO MacGUFF
Played by Ellen Page in Juno (2007)
what time wisecracking, rebel Juno makes a spur-of-the-moment choice to sleep with her nerdy best bud, she ends up knocked up. In turn, the teen makes a series of daring, against-the-grain choices, and won't bend to anyone's will in the course.

JULIET HULME
Played by Kate Winslet in Heavenly Creatures (1994)

The real-life Hulme became a national feeling in her native New Zealand after she murdered her mother with the aid of her best friend. The movie report of her story — directed by a pre-Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson — shocked with its unsettling violence, but Winslet's performance was nil short of lovely.

IVY
Played by Drew Barrymore in Poison Ivy (1992)


through her nose ring, trampy outfits, and an ivy-wrapped crucifix tattooed on her thigh, Ivy is every morsel the radical teenage temptress who drives men wild. Only this vixen isn't out for just a man. She wants to take over an entire family, and she'll stop at nothing (including seducing mom, dad, and daughter) to get her mode.

JIM STARK
Played by James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Adolescent angst, Hollywood-style found one of its earliest and most enduring voices in Rebel's antihero, played with raw intensity — and more than a little sex appeal — by a 24-year-old James Dean.

KATHRYN MERTEUIL
Played by Sarah Michelle Gellar in Cruel Intentions (1999)
''I'm the Marcia f---ding Brady of he Upper East Side,'' revels Kathryn of her location in polite society Manhattan. Ironically, though, the snide private-school student is quite the opposite of the oldest Brady girl: She takes cocaine from her crucifix necklace, she maliciously seeks revenge on an ex-boyfriend who screwed her over, and she makes a bet with her step-brother that if he can bed their headmaster's virgin daughter, then his container beds

WILMA DEAN LOOMIS
Played by Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass (1961) forest was already a teen-rebel icon (thanks to her role in 1955's Rebel Without a Cause) when she earned her second Oscar nomination as Wilma Dean ''Deanie'' Loomis, a small-town girl who literally drives herself insane pining for Warren Beatty. Can you really

JULIE

Played by Ludivine Sagnier in Swimming Pool (2003)
journalist Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling) has escaped to her publisher's house in the French scenery for some much needed inspiration when in walks the smoldering, self-indulgent daughter of her publisher, Julie, for an surprising visit. Julie's loose ways (strutting around naked, bedding plentiful men, and boozing all night long) serve to distract and then intrigue the author who has a hard time individual between reality and her thoughts

TV Watch 'So You Think You Can Dance' Recap: The Top 10 Emerge

You've got to hand it to Nigel Lythgoe. He may be an uncouth cad for that dig at Mary's Botox use, and he's definitely property a petty grudge against that piddle little Russian folk dance habit, but the man is one wily fox at getting his way. First, he takes to the public airwaves to bemoan the fact that a mania recording conglomerate won't release the rights to Michael Jackson's music for a tribute to the man's contributions to the world of dance. (Which is to say, if we're not seeing the moonwalk on the So You Think You Can Dance stage by the end of the season, I'll be quite surprised.) And Nigel even managed to dismiss the Cubeb while also swiftly hiring him back for the impending tour. Nigel just had to admit that the Cheep was never going to come within a country mile of catching up to the rest of the Top 10, and to keep him any longer on the show would undercut SYTYCD's precious dance world integrity, which he's so fond of touting to any who will listen. But we all know those ''producers'' of the SYTYCD tour had a ''talk'' with Nigel and, well, this is most likely how it went

Most terrible TV Shows forever

Shows variety from the face-plants of ‘Wipeout’ to imagine footwork of ‘Dance'

The perfect summer television needs to be light and refreshing, something that leaves you satisfied but that you can return to without feeling overwhelmed.

excitement Island (Fo x, 2001)

Four single couples (who couldn't have been that into each other if they agreed to do this) visit a Caribbean island to have their loyalty tested by ''The Singles,'' a.k.a. hot bodies of the opposite sex. Mark L. Walberg, clearly the poster boy for Great Moments in New Lows, hosted the series with a straight face.

My Super Sweet 16 (MTV, 2005)

People on TV are typically attractive, endowed, or have lots of money. MTV's sickening 15-year-old brats who care for their parents, friends, and the rare hired troupe of little people like garbage while planning the party of their dreams? They're the ones with lots of money — and the most raucous part of the show is that they've deluded themselves into thinking their parents' prosperity means that they're sexy.

The Littlest Groom (Fox miniseries, 2004) / Age of Love (ABC, 2007)

The Littlest Groom go after small person Glen Foster on a quest for true love, first with 12 little women and then — inundation alert! — With a few average-size women terrified into the mix to help Foster choose whether height should resolve whether or not you find someone attractive.'' Switch out ''age'' with ''height'' in that last sentence, and you have the basic premise of Age of Love. Would anyone care to cringe?

The Swan (Fox, 2004) / I Want a Famous Face

Contestants on The Swan continued various plastic surgeries for the prospect to win a magnificence show that principally judged which plastic surgery had turned out the least wonky...I mean, ''best.'' Famous Face wannabes went under the dagger to gain the skin of their fauve Celebes, including Britney Spears (pictured) and — no joke — Dustin Diamond. People: The Ugly Duckling is a fairy tale. It's not self-improvement if your goal is to become a different person

The Jerry Springer Show (Syndicated, 1991)

Exclusive of the trash-tastes, frequently topless brawls that Jerry positive on his set, would TV have been motivated to realize Great Moments in New Lows in the first place? Let me take a spin on Maury Povich's fail-proof Wheel of Paternity to seek out the answer. In the meantime, take another tequila shot from the mansion's bathtub, and go on a date with this 3-foot-tall plastic surgeon I found on a remote island hanging out with Mark L. Walberg. He could be a millionaire!

Shows centered around the concept of ''millionaires''

on Fox's 2000 one-night special Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? (Right), Darla Conger strike out of 49 pageant contestants to wed Rick Rockwell — whom she'd never met — on the spot. Contestants on Joe Millionaire (2003, also on Fox, of course) thought they were pretending to fall in love with a millionaire dullard, but it turned out he was just a dullard...with a construction gig and a short-lived underwear-modeling career. Score? $1 million to the first person who cleans up my vomit

Kid Nation (CBS, 2007)

There, let's exploit children! Forty kids, aged 8-15, challenge to form a performance society on a glorified movie set in Bonanza City, New Mexico. At least the casting was apt: Nearly all of the kids — excuse me, ''pioneers'' — had very early in life developed the classic reality-TV-star quality of being really annoying. I'd honestly rather watch a live-action version of the hit 1985 floppy-disk game The Oregon Trail.

I Love Money (VH1, 2008)

We have to respect VH1's sparkling move of acknowledging their nosedive into the hair gel- and breast implant-lined abyss by naming the show exactly what; perhaps, all competitive reality TV shows could be called. (The Biggest Loser could also apply.) In this shameless knockoff of MTV's The Real World/Road Rules Challenge, loser contestants from past VH1 actuality shows like Flavor of Love and I Love New York compete in sexy 'n' embarrassing challenges to win $250,000. Playboy model Megan (pictured) has a fake-tanned leg up, seeing as she starred in VH1's Rock of Love 2 AND the CW's Beauty and the Geek (season 3).

Hurl! (G4, 2008)

The once videogame-centric cable network gave us Hurl!, where contestants would gorge on potpies and clam chowder (and, we assume, some non-delicious items), It also marked a new low in EW.com's ever-competitive collection of the most appalling TV shows ever. If you can make it to the bottom rung of the following shame spiral, you win, too!

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This about a love-hate relationship. Michael Moore’s Wall Street movie at last
has a name: Capitalism: A Love Story. The Provocateur says the film, opening Oct. 2, will tear into the people dependable for the current financial crisis and ridicule the love matter some companies have with cash at the expense of ordinary people. The%documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling

The scene-stealing Chinese-American actor from summer hit The Hangover will turn up on NBC this fall — as a Spanish teacher. Actor Ken Jeong, who plays gangster Mr. Chow in the film, is set to play Señor Chang on five episodes of Community, a sitcom set at a junior college that stars Joel McHale and Chevy Chase. The series is due Sept. 17; he’ll appear starting in the second episode. Jeong also is featured in Judd Apatow’s latest, Funny People, due in theaters July 31. ...