Word: burtonizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cold water on their latest mad pash. A few Hollywood couples stayed hitched--Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, 50 years and counting--but such exemplary marriages had less entertainment value than the connubial career of, say, Elizabeth Taylor, eight times wed and divorced, including two volatile turns with Richard Burton. The melodrama of the actress's life equaled anything she endured onscreen...
...view echoed by most others. Early in the day some publicists were optimistic that a deal could be worked out that would allow their clients to attend. Kelly Bush, CEO of ID Public Relations, a firm that represents a long list of nominees including Ellen Page, Casey Affleck, Tim Burton, America Ferrera, Mary-Louise Parker and Kyra Sedgwick, said, "I will certainly encourage our nominees to attend and hope other? publicists do the same." The announcement of the press conference format changed Bush's plans...
...What's more, campaign officials believe that Obama's Iowa victory has almost certainly been accompanied by a financial windfall for his campaign, particularly over the Internet, where he has had a far stronger operation than Clinton has. The Obama campaign declined to provide any figures, with spokesman Bill Burton saying only: "There's a lot of energy and enthusiasm, and it's continuing to increase...
...early bliss: Sweeney's daughter Joanna (Jayne Wisener) and her beau Anthony (Jamie Campbell Bower, who looks, somewhat disconcertingly, like Scarlett Johansson, and sings with a robust tenderness). Do they escape the carnage? We won't say; and at the end, the film doesn't show, so intent is Burton on following Sweeney to his doom...
...pile up - and land with a sickening squishiness when they slide down the chute from Sweeney's parlor to the basement -the more sensitive may avert their eyes and turn from the movie. But this is gore with an agenda. Having seen where Sweeney came from, and the artistry Burton and Depp bring to his tale, we must keep watching. Horror has its own panache, its internal, infernal beauty. And nothing we see is as terrifying as the scar's on Benjamin Barker's soul when he devolved into Sweeney Todd...