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Republican media consultant Fred Davis III has a vision for the future of American politics, one in which building-size rats roam the landscape, babies in strollers wear enormous brown toupees, and demon sheep with red robotic eyes feed on rolling green hills. He envisions a democratic process driven by viral oddities and visual tricks, campaign ads so weird that no one can look away...
...Carly Fiorina Is an Internet Genius," declared New York magazine. "The Most Bizarre Ad in Recent Memory," blared the Huffington Post. "Demon Sheep Goes Viral," announced the Washington Post on a front-page Web headline. The tag #demonsheep quickly spiked near the top of Twitter's trending topics, and Rachel Maddow played the spot on her MSNBC show, calling it "so bad, no one wanted to believe it was real." Not wanting to be left out of the controversy, the third Republican candidate in the race to unseat Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, Chuck DeVore, responded by launching a website - Demonsheep.org...
Guys and Dolls, adapted and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, was based on the hit Broadway show about a Salvation Army lass liberated from propriety by demon rum and the attentions of a sharp gambler. As Sergeant Sarah Brown, Simmons begins with a virginal haughtiness, compromised only slightly by her nervous habit of unbuttoning the middle button on her army jacket. Then, on a night in Havana with Brando's Sky Masterson (he's made a $1,000 bet he can take her there), she's the innocent blossoming into sexual joy. That emotional unbuttoning is something the actress...
Vampires are demon lovers - courtly but toxic beaux, your dreamiest, most dangerous blind date. That's been the movie norm, from the Bela Lugosi Dracula in 1931 to today's Twilight saga. But there's another view of the tradition, an alterna-vamp, that begins with the first important horror movie, F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, and was touched on in Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark and the Francis Coppola Dracula. It's the vampire as pure predator, a gaunt, subhuman pestilence, the ultimate parasite whose host is the rest of us. Nothing sexy about these creatures, or their...
...feelings down there too - old, dark, unmapped feelings - and I'm going to have to deal with them before the fear leaves me alone. My phobia is a part of me - an ugly part, by the looks of it. I'm going to have to get to know that demon better. Because it's not going to leave till it's good and ready...