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...Batman Returns” (1992)—Max Shreck...
...person,” says Young, “haunted by dreams of the father who never accepted him”—to battle Reagan’s forces. He takes up the superhero moniker Blackman, joins up with a counterpart named Rushon (a campy reference to Batman and Robin) and George W. Bush as The French Tickler, and the trio ultimately puts Reagan back to rest. “I wanted to see what would happen if I introduced two poor black street people into the mix,” says Young. With a troop...
...Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas Every Burton film is Halloween scary and candy-cane sweet. So it's appropriate that the fevered imagineer (Beetlejuice, the Batman films, Edward Scissorhands) dreamed up this stop-motion fable about a Halloween ghoul who wants to play Santa Claus. Directed by Henry Selick, Nightmare is Disney's weirdest cartoon ever: chilly, rollicking, endlessly inventive. And it's animated by Danny Elfman's magical-spookical score. Is this the first Hollywood musical to set every one of its 10 songs in a minor...
...irrepressible Junie B. Jones, America's most famous first grader, has been on the New York Times children's bestsellers list for more than a year. Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! (P.S. So Does May), Barbara Park's hilarious new book, is the 25th in the Junie B. series. The plot: It's the week before winter break, and Room One is atwitter with the holiday spirit. But May, the class tattletale, is driving Junie B. crazy with her snooping. As usual, the heroine is in such a hurry to talk that she makes grammatical mistakes, like "stoled" and "bestest." Galley...
When in doubt, think Batman. It was not until Bruce Wayne confronted his fear of bats that he could embrace it and carry it with him toward his success as the oh-so-popular superhero...