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NANCY OLIVER Movie: Lars and the Real Girl Once worked as: A video-game writer Unlikely heroine: A latex doll named Bianca
...distinctly 20th century sort. Hopi katsina dolls—traditionally carved by Hopi Indians to share the stories of their ancestors—are telling their stories through a new medium: photography. Through Feb. 28, George Ducharme will be displaying a photographic study of his collection of katsina dolls in the Holyoke Center Exhibition Space. The dolls’ carvings are meant to represent katsina spirits, benevolent ancestral beings whom the Hopi believe can bring fertility and health to their native arid land. The carvings are given to children to teach them the spirits’ stories and about Hopi...
...original, Angela Lansbury played Mrs. Lovett as a deranged kewpie doll, inanely flirtatious toward Sweeney yet heartless toward the human remains she pounded into patties. The wonderful singer-comedienne Judy Kaye, in last year's Broadway revival, saw Lovett as the flip side of Sweeney: they're both killers, but he's in it for retribution, she for the sick fun. Bonham Carter, though, is a figure of crafty scorn, and nearly as misanthropic as her demon lover. Ill fortune has ground him down; for her, it's the long slog of surviving among London's lower and criminal classes...
...first feature) and The Night Stalker and the '90s films What Dreams May Come and Stir of Echoes, based on his novels. Some of Matheson's TV fables - the Twilight Zone story about the gremlin on the airplane wing, the Trilogy of Terror jape about a Zuni fetish doll chasing Karen Black around her apartment - linger at the base of many a viewer's spine, three or four decades after they were first aired. Credit those residual shivers to a nonchalant, nonpareil master of the creep...
Best Three-quel: The Bourne Ultimatum Best TV Series (Reality): Project Runway Best Movie: Ratatouille Best Fashion Trend: Baby-Doll Dresses Best Song: “Stronger” by Kanye West Best TV Series (Non-Reality): The Office Best Harvard Building: Widener Library Best Book: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Why are you hot? “Asian glow.” “’Cause I’m exothermic.” “Because I’m filling this out on my motherfucking iPhone.” What...