Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presidential candidates are Sterling P.A. Darling '01, Ben W. Dreyfus '01, Fentrice D. Driskell '01, Frank X. Leonard '01 and Todd E. Plants '01. The vice presidential candidates are John A. Burton '01, Nehal S. Patel '02, Catherine E. Tenney '01 and Ben M. Wikler...
...previous years, many presidential and vice-presidential candidates have chosen to run in teams, although students will vote for each position separately. Darling is running with Patel, Driskell with Burton, Leonard with Tenney, and Plants with Wikler. Dreyfus is the only candidate running alone and the only candidate who is not currently a council member...
Crane's name was his frame: a gangly galoot and, when he fell for buxom Katrina Van Tassel, an easy prey for the burly lads of Sleepy Hollow. In Burton's revision and Depp's incarnation, Crane is a Manhattan constable sent upriver to solve a murder; predating Poe's Auguste Dupin by several decades, he is America's first detective. He is also a troubled soul, carrying literal scars from childhood and memories that roil his sleep. So handsome, so haunted, he proves irresistible to this Katrina (Christina Ricci). Yet Depp bumbles and stumbles, just like the old Ichabod...
...filmed in a studio near London and cast mostly with British actors. At first the accents are jarring; viewers will stop to wonder just when Americans finally learned to speak American. But the presence of Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson and especially Christopher Lee will tip you to Burton's intent. He is making not an American folktale but a British horror movie--a tribute to the Hammer studio of the late '50s and later, to its Dracula and Frankenstein remakes, to the decorum punctuated by gore, the stake driven into the capacious bosom...
Funny thing is, those movies weren't very good. This one is: Burton's richest, prettiest, weirdest since Batman Returns. The simple story bends to his twists, freeing him for an exercise in high style. Sleepy Hollow may be late for Halloween, but this trick is a real treat...