Word: boyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Last week I promised info to all of you prospective boy band members who dream of prepubescent fame, photo shoots for Teen People and wardrobe upon wardrobe of matching sweatsuits. Remember how big I said reality TV was going to be? Well, it turns out that ABC is in the midst of preparing "O-Town," a show produced by the same people who made "The Real World." "O-Town" tracks the rise to fame of five 18-24 year old wannabe stars who form a boy band. Episode one begins with the boys' auditioning...
...into Burton's newest alternate universe, where supernatural evil is prompted by human vice, and the consequences are so relentlessly gory that even the trees bleed. If only to let the blood flow longer and more freely (even in one gratuitous scene, from the implied decapitation of a little boy), this version of Sleepy Hollow expands significantly and more disturbingly on the original. Irving's tale becomes entwined in a complicated plot of greed and corruption, a horrifying subplot explaining the psychological warping of Ichabod, and several impressive fight scenes in which the decapitations have an especially martial flare. (Star...
...thinks this is a good idea. Think about it for a sec. Sure, we'll watch the first couple of weeks, but who's going to listen to a band when we know how lame the members were to begin with? Would any girl still scream at the Backstreet Boys if she watched videotapes of the boys milking cows or shoveling manure out in a Nebraska cornfield? Or an 'NSync member learning to lose his southern accent with a voice coach? In any case, unless they edit severely, we might be amused by the recurring spice-boy dramas. Boy gets...
...film The Black Cauldron, though again, few, if any, of his ideas made it into the finished product. But it was while working on Cauldron that Burton established several friendships within the studio that eventually allowed him to make Vincent (1982), a five-minute stop-motion short about a boy obsessed with Vincent Price, one of Burton's own idols...
...Returns, Burton made Edward Scissorhands, which stands to date as his most unusual, as well as his most personal, work. This fairy tale involves a mad scientist (played by Burton's idol, Vincent Price) creating a simulacrum of a young man (Johnny Depp) in his laboratory. He gives the boy scissors for hands until he can finish his work but dies before attaching the new hands. The boy lives a lonely life in the castle until he is discovered by an Avon lady (Dianne West), who takes him home to the pastel-colored suburbia below. The boy, dubbed Edward Scissorhands...