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These eleven tales blend the domestic pity of Raymond Carver with the macabre comedy and rough justice of Roald Dahl. They nearly all turn, as most of Rendell's novels do, on two inward-looking impulses: revenge and the desire to hide. The characters are conventional middle-class Britons. Their behavior, however, is high gothic. The ironic Loopy, for example, becomes increasingly credible as events move toward the horrific. A middle-aged man, cast as the wolf in a Red Riding Hood playlet, discovers that he likes to wear a furry skin and romp in predatory games. His mother...
...DAHL - Provo, Utah
Front runner in the summer sweepstakes is War of the Worlds, for which Steven Spielberg has added his patented parent-and-imperiled-child theme to H.G. Wells' alien-invasion novel, memorably filmed in 1953. Tim Burton has imposed his lovable eccentricity on the Roald Dahl children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with Johnny Depp replacing Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. In 1974, Burt Reynolds starred as the football-playing con in The Longest Yard; now he supports Adam Sandler and Chris Rock in their replay. And if your memory of Herbie, the Disney Love Bug, is as rusty...
...beetles that were destroying sugar cane crops, they didn't count on the poisonous amphibians going after kookaburras, snakes and native cats instead. Now, after decades and millions of dollars spent trying to eradicate the man-made plague, a solution may be at hand: the DAHL'S AQUATIC FROG, native to Australia, can swallow infant and tadpole cane toads without any apparent ill effects?not bad, considering a grown cane toad can kill a dog in 15 minutes
...flying oompa loompa? The Great Glass Elevator in free fall? We don't know what the cast of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is staring up at either. Honestly! We'll all find out together next year, when the Tim Burton remake of the Roald Dahl classic hits theaters. JOHNNY DEPP, in the top hat, plays the off-kilter Willy Wonka, with FREDDIE HIGHMORE, far left, as Charlie Bucket. Let the hunt for a golden ticket begin...