TELEVISION: THE NEXT GENERATION

BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD LEAVE THE AIR THIS FALL, BUT A NEW CREW OF TROUBLEMAKERS IS ALREADY HERE

Trey Parker, 27, and Matt Stone, 26, have had the sort of Hollywood good fortune that must rank right up there on the wish list of slacker filmmakers with dinner invitations from Parker Posey. Former film students at the University of Colorado, Parker and Stone were trying to make a go of it in the movie business in 1995, when they got a call from Brian Graden, then an executive at Fox 2000, who offered them an intriguing project. In search of livelier-than-average holiday greetings, Graden commissioned the pair to make a video Christmas card for him to send to friends...

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