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...debut of the director of the Batman blockbusters. This ripe tale has intimations of Burton's Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands: the undead and a wild child sundered in suburbia. But Burton's Batmanic surrealism is plenty evident here. The pet cemetery is adorned with fire-hydrant and dog-biscuit tombstones, and the community unites to hot-wire the dead-again pooch. It's a prize oddity from a child prodigy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Jul. 20, 1992 | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

...Self-Portrait as a Fountain. And Wegman started making deadpan videos of himself spraying an entire can of deodorant into his armpit. When his new Weimaraner got into the act, Wegman recognized that it was enough to tape the puppy doing something as simple as trying to extract a biscuit from a glass bottle. As a comic deflation of the doggedness of human endeavor, Man Ray's tireless noodling with his bottle ranks as a bit of theater that Samuel Beckett might have enjoyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: William Wegman: Bowwowing The Art World | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

...strike up a humorous, thought-provoking dialogue in the midst of adversity. While Atahuallpa is held prisoner by the Spaniards in his own palace, he jokes with Pizarro, "Your pope is mad, he gives away countries that are not his." Later, he quips of transubstantiation, "First [Christ] becomes a biscuit and then they eat him and then they drink his blood...

Author: By Liza M. Velasquez, | Title: Royal Hunt Misses the Mark | 10/26/1990 | See Source »

...emergence of Tiffany, whose album and merchandising are now being handled by Scott. "We'll try to follow the same pattern, make all the right moves for her," Scott says. "And we hope that will create another profit center." There will also be an album by Biscuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Stardom for Fun and Profit | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

This is not a singing dog. As any devoted fan can tell you, Biscuit is a security guard for the New Kids. He is, Scott swears, "a huge guy who, it turns out, is a great artist. All the fans know him. He's going to be in the New Kids cartoon series, he's going to be in the New Kids comic books. So it's built in. People are going to think I'm a genius. But it doesn't take a genius to see what the marketing potential is." There must, inevitably, be a Biscuit T shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Stardom for Fun and Profit | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

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