Word: barret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gretel for Disney's new cable station in the same year as Vincent, Burton was then allowed to develop and direct "Frankenweenie", a 25-minute film that served as a precursor for all of Burton's work to come. In the short feature, ten-year-old suburbanite Victor Frankenstein (Barret Oliver of Neverending Story fame) reanimates his dead dog, Sparky. Filmed in black-and-white, with make-up on Sparky complete with little neck bolts and stitches, "Frankenweenie" was a modest success for the filmmaker that eventually opened the door for his first feature film: Pee-Wee's Big Adventure...
...succeeded in drawing the entire audience into his little world of metaphorical associations. Though he is often described in the rock press as eccentric (Details magazine once went so far as to show him Rorschach blots; the verdict was complete sanity) and frequently compared to Pink Floyd's Syd Barret (pre-permanent acid trip), by the end the crowd assembled was ready to call him a lyrical genius, albeit a cryptic...
...positives from New Adventures in Hi-Fi and combines them with traditional R.E.M. The absence of Berry, who left as the result of a brain aneurysm during the Monster Tour, translates itself into an exotic mixture of spacey beats on several tracks. Screaming Trees drummer Barret Martin and Beck's Joey Waronker add occasional human drumming, but in reality, the drumming doesn't play too major a role in the guitar and vocal-driven group...
...dashing young Harvard professor was stopped by a reporter from the Boston Herald. The professor, Everett Mendelsohn, was asked, "Who would you like to haunt tomorrow?" Mendelsohn replied that "I wouldn't mind haunting Governor Ross Barret of Mississippi, and I think I'd wear a white sheet while I did so he'd feel at home. And all editorial writers who too easily commit the nation to dangerous actions in these troubled times...
Mendelsohn speaks of science in terms of social responsibility. True, he seems more interested in teaching these days than in haunting anyone. Thirty-three years after his run-in with the Herald reporter, though, one can still see the outline of Ross Barret's ghost in the polished figure of Everett Mendelsohn...