Word: frankenstein
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...event; the "lady"--an actress whom the contestant loved from afar when she lived near him as a boy--who doesn't want to go back to Mississippi with him "and cook okra and have everybody call me a whore;" and, finally, the contestant himself, an elongated, hick-Frankenstein monster scared shitless at the prospect of being torn to shreds. In between the producer virtually masturbates to the commercials, announcements and alarums on his video monitor...
DIED. Alfred Frankenstein, 74, lively, irascible music and art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle for more than 30 years who frequently championed local talent at the expense of internationally known performers and who, in 1939, published for the first time the sketches by Russian Artist Victor Hartmann, which inspired Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition of a heart attack; in San Francisco...
This one has everything: sex, violence, comedy, thrills, tenderness. It's an anthology and apotheosis of American pop movies: Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Nutty Professor, 2001, Alien, Love Story. It opens at fever pitch and then starts soaring-into genetic fantasy, into a precognitive dream of delirium and delight. Madness is its subject and substance, style and spirit. The film changes tone, even form, with its hero's every new mood and mutation. It expands and contracts with his mind until both almost crack. It keeps threatening to go bonkers, then makes good...
...almost all these versions of the legend of the artificial man there clung the aura of evil. To create a living being was God's role; to imitate God was blasphemous, even diabolic, and thus doomed to disaster. Hence Frankenstein...
...effort titled Demon Seed, a presumptuous robot goes even further and fulfills the sinful ambition of making Julie Christie pregnant. But then came Star Wars, in which the cutely diminutive Artoo Deetoo and See Threepio help to rescue the imprisoned Princess Leia. Thus Hollywood found ways to reduce Frankenstein's heirs to figures of camp, reproducible in plastic. Inside their wired metal brains, the robots nourish greater ambitions than that...