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Because he tends to dress like a mortician and has made a fair number of films that romanticize gloom, Tim Burton has emerged as one of those directors who are not just makers of myths but subjects of them too. The most prevalent Burton myth is that he is dark and possibly a little disturbed. In addition to his clothes and movies, there are eerie bits of biography to support this view, like the fact that Burton's parents blacked out the windows of his childhood bedroom, apparently to save on heating bills. (Burton grew up in Burbank, Calif...
Cross the wires of the Burton myths, as Hollywood studios often do, and--it's alive!--you get Frankenstein's multiplex monster, a developmentally arrested auteur capable of turning out an almost consistently profitable brand of kooky horror. Naturally, Burton loathes these myths. "You get pigeonholed very easily in Hollywood," he says, "even if you do something they were leery of to begin with. I try not to think about it, but, oh, it kind of drives me out of my mind...
...passed largely unobserved at Harvard, from what I could tell. Sure, some students probably reflected on their own as they went about their day. But most simply enjoyed a Tuesday off: they slept in, caught up on coursework, watched the preview screening of the new Tim Burton film and nursed hangovers from the Harvard State University party the night before. There was, after all, little in the way of commemoration to remind us why classes were cancelled...
...responsibility to consider the Administration's probable response and to put aside his own agenda in order to protect his wife and the mother of his children. Wilson is every bit as despicable as the leaker. No man should risk the well-being of his family. MARGE BURTON Hulbert, Okla...
...suggesting that liberals imitate this sort of behavior, but the resilience of the disgraced on the right is instructive. If Burton could be taken seriously after his watermelon episode, are we really sure the Democrats had no choice but to drop Bill Clinton like a political hotpotato rather than use him in the 2000 campaign? Now, Democrats shudder at the Kerry campaign because he’s Northeastern and liberal, as though embracing their base (never mind their fringes) were some kind of a political death sentence. On an individual level, this is the kind of insecurity that makes...