Word: curios
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vagabond king of grade-Z films, directed the black musical Moon over Harlem--as well as pictures in Yiddish and Ukrainian--all in the same year (1939). These guys were tireless: from 1935 to 1945, hack-of-hacks Sam Newfield directed an impossible 150 quickie movies, including the grindhouse curio The Terror of Tiny Town, the only all-midget singing western...
...interview to any British or South African news outlets (asking price: almost $800,000), she's cashing in on the cachet of the humble house in Soweto that she shared with Mandela in the 1950s. But now that Soweto is a tourist destination, the garage has become a curio shop where you can pick up a small bottle of soil from the garden ("Heroes' Acre," as the label calls it). Each bottle comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by Mrs. Mandela, but at about $11 a bottle, it's a slow way to pay her debts...
...objects (the slice of melon and the yellow tip of the cucumber) stick out a little into our space. Everything is painted with self-abnegating care, warts and all, becoming a tiny sample of the world as a marvel: not through weirdness or preciousness (as in the curio cabinets of the great) but through its ordinary, even blemished, but always singular character...
Steamboats packed with religious revivalists once disembarked each summer at Oak Bluffs, where one of the country's first free-Black communities sprang up. Today, Oak Bluffs is a delightful mix of gaily painted cottages and curio shops. Kids of all ages will enjoy catching the brass ring on the nation's oldest Carousel, "The Flying Horses...
...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...