Word: caspers
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...Hollywood sense--this is it. Jelly-colored onscreen buttons pulsate as if alive. Menu borders are translucent, allowing you to see the documents under them. Sliders glow luminously. And there's animation: dismiss an unneeded window with a mouse click, and it disappears in a blur like Casper the Friendly Ghost being sucked up a chimney...
...Finally, the name Casper. Did you get teased for the friendly ghost associations, and if so do you feel like that in any way that gave you an edge in a ghost story movie...
...teased for it. They would sing Casper the Friendly Ghost, and so I'd sing with them....And of course I didn't want to put my son through that, so I named him Casper as well. (laughs...
...Brom Bones, one of the primary characters in the book, becomes just one of the horseman's many victims in the film. Played by Casper Van Dien, who starred in Starship Troopers, Burton's Brom fades into the background of the other townspeople except in a great fight sequence where he and Ichabod team up against the horseman...
...Several big name actors play the many new supporting roles in the story. The town is filled with recognizable faces, even if they are paler and chubbier than usual. Brom Bones is played by Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers). Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, is the town Reverend; Michael Gambon, the famous British theater actor, is Baltus Van Tassel...