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Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Sandra Burton, Mary Cronin, Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, William McWhirter, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Bruce van Voorst, James Wilde...
...have done this by guesswork. His 1633 portrait of Henry Percy, "the Wizard Earl" who spent 16 years of his life immured in the Tower of London for his supposed complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, is an icon of saturnine intellect, from the same introspective domain as Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. But Van Dyck probably never met Percy, who died in 1632; he was working from a younger portrait by someone else...
Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Sandra Burton, Mary Cronin, Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, William McWhirter, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Bruce van Voorst, James Wilde...
Edward Scissorhands Spooky-cute Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder -- they look like the figures on a Transylvanian wedding cake -- make ideally mismatched lovers in Tim Burton's witty fable, in which a sweet-souled alien comes to suburbia, makes a few friends and scurries back home. E.T., meet...
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS. The Jesus story retold in pop pastel colors -- except that Edward, poor gentle creature, nearly gets crucified at Christmastime. Tim Burton (Batman) directs the season's funniest, bittersweetest film...