Word: burtons
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...makes his living imitating an icky-sweet, or perhaps brain-damaged, prepubescent boy. The act consists mainly of mincing, prancing and an inane giggle, so that sometimes it seems he is a little mixed up and may be doing a bad female impersonation. His Big Adventure (directed by Tim Burton) consists of trying to recover his stolen bicycle. His big mystery lies in his strange appeal for adolescents. Is he yet another vehicle through which they can sentimentalize their childhoods? Is he just the latest grotesque fad? Is he to the Reagan era what Pinky Lee was to Eisenhower...
...Davey of Celestron International, an optical-instruments firm in Torrance, Calif.: "The comet is an excuse for people to buy the telescope they've always wanted." American Express is offering a $799 telescope "for Halley's comet and beyond," which can be paid for in monthly installments of $39.95. Burton Rubin, who made a fortune in the '70s on his E-Z Wider cigarette-rolling papers, hopes for a repeat performance from his $200 Halleyscope, a wide-angle telescope that comes equipped with a tripod and Halley's comet handbook. He has already sold 10,000 Halleyscopes and expects...
...Stiller), a zebra (Chris Rock), a giraffe (David Schwimmer) and a hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) forsake the friendly confines of Central Park Zoo and end up on you-know-which island off Africa. The plot, by co-directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath and co-writers Mark Burton and Billy Frolick, asks whether a carnivore, the lion, can keep from eating his friends...
Basically, Nolan's job is to revive a troubled studio franchise, and you can feel him struggling to reanimate the neurotic dislocations of Tim Burton's 1989 Batman. His effort is not dishonorable, but what it needs, and doesn't have, is a Joker in the deck-some antic human antimatter to give it the giddy lift of perversity that a bunch of impersonal explosions, no matter how well managed, can't supply. -By Richard Schickel
...Dead that in the future, according to Gorillaz, we'll need more sunscreen-but the music achieves the same kind of thrilling dislocation as vintage Sun Ra, without any of the unfortunate cat-yelping antimelodiousness. Melodies are everywhere; they just take a while to emerge because Albarn and Burton have stirred them all together. Dirty Harry has the shimmering keyboards of The Message and the eerily blank kiddie chorus of Another Brick in the Wall. O Green World has a Song 2 guitar line and a countermelody seemingly by Atari. Reference points from rock, rap, dance, dub and world music...