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...shooting, arrived late or not at all many other days and enraged studio bosses when she left the set to fly to Washington for President Kennedy's birthday party. As shooting fell further and further behind schedule, Fox executives, already reeling from budget overruns on the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton extravaganza Cleopatra, fired her and sued for breach of contract. But they quietly hired her back weeks later when co-star Dean Martin, out of loyalty to Monroe, refused to work with the actress chosen to replace her, Lee Remick. Monroe died before filming could resume...
...fable is in disrepute these days. Any fantasy that trumpets its artifice with storybook colors and extravagant decor -- all to illustrate the parable of a malformed artist-messiah rejected by his flock -- is asking for trouble. Perhaps only Tim Burton, fresh from his Batman bonanza, could have the clout to make such a defiantly vulnerable curio as Edward Scissorhands. And perhaps only this former animator could make it work so beautifully. A witty comedy of manners that arcs into poignance, this is a Christmas movie only a Grinch could hate...
Edward is the innocent other, a literary type that stretches from Kaspar Hauser to Being There's Chauncey Gardiner to E.T. -- and to the heroes of Burton's Beetlejuice and Pee-wee's Big Adventure. When the Avon lady brings him into her spectacularly bland neighborhood, she unawares sets his creativity on a collision course with her friends' anxious conformity. At first the housewives accept Edward's handicap as a gift. His metal shears can dice vegetables in a trice, turn a drab hairdo into a chic coiffure and sculpt front-yard bushes into exotic topiary: ballerinas, pterodactyls, even...
...film exists out of time -- out of the present cramped time, certainly -- in the any-year of a child's imagination. That child could be the little girl to whom the grandmotherly Ryder tells Edward's story nearly a lifetime after it took place. Or it could be Burton, a wise child and a wily inventor, who has created one of the brightest, bittersweetest fables of this or any-year...
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...