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This is no ordinary spirit-stricken shack, if only because of its impressive track record. Before the movie begins, it has already abducted our hero's son, destroyed his marriage, and killed his aunt. Not bad for an inanimate object. Then, before 10 minutes has elapsed, it manages to lure our helpless author back to the spooky edifice in order to finish...
...BEEN A year since Katt's mega-best-seller took the reading world by storm. Now, he is in the midst of coming to grips with his life, by writing a personal account of the Vietnam War. But his aunt suddenly hangs herself and leaves him the house. Strangely, he cannot bring himself to sell the old thing, and is drawn back into the evil vortex...
...movie's plot, it is very simple. La Cage is losing lots of money when the movie starts. Conveniently enough, an old Scottish aunt of Mammi's has died and bequeathed her 10 million pounds sterling and so much land that it is just quantified in the movie as being "half of Scotland". There is--of course--a condition to this inheritance which naturally, Mammi has no hope of ever honoring. The condition states that Mammi must marry a woman and have a baby by her within eighteen months...
Smith lived in a suburb of Houston with his wife and three children, but he was used to pulling up roots and resettling whenever necessary. "He never turned down a challenge and always did whatever the Navy asked him to do," said Florence Noe, an aunt. Nor did he dwell much on the danger of his work. "Everybody looks at flying the shuttle as something dangerous. But it's not," he commented before Challenger's lift-off last week. "It's a good program, and something the country should be proud of." Said his brother Pat: "I hope everybody realizes...
Cornish falls into the art world when he discovers a sketching primer in his aunt's library and then hones his skills by sketching in the mortuary. Eventually he ends up in England, gets slightly involved in the spy game and falls in love with his cousin who is really in love with a gambling revolutionary. She gets pregnant; he marries her; she abandons him and child; he meets his painting mentor who takes him to Germany to engage in an obscure and slightly unethical anti-Nazi plot; he makes his reputation as an art critic by revealing a forgery...