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...potential salvation and destruction in remote and quiet places. The citizens of Bhopal lived near the Union Carbide plant because they sought to live there. The plant provided jobs, the pesticide more food. Bhopal was a modern parable of the risks and rewards originally engendered by the Industrial Revolution: Frankenstein's wonder becoming Frankenstein's monster...
Baby Fae brought out defenders of man, beast and press. But who was defending Baby Fae? There was something disturbing-subtly, but profoundly disturbing-about the baboon implant. It has nothing to do with animal rights or the Frankenstein factor or full disclosure. It has to do with means and ends...
...days ago when the political office of the Cook County coroner ceased to exist. It was abolished and has been replaced by a professional medical examiner. We are told this will make the investigation of deaths more efficient and scientific. Compared with the coroner's office, even Dr. Frankenstein and Igor were more scientific. "Gentlemen," a coroner once declared when a head was found in a city sewer, "this is the work of a murderer." To quality as a deputy coroner, you had to possess the following: a letter from your ward boss, a wide-brimmed gray fedora, a diamond...
Mary Shelley would be pleased-or would she? The author's redivivus creation, the Frankenstein monster, is back again for a new-wave horror movie that sounds like, but is not, a remake of The Bride of Frankenstein. It stars Rock Singer Sting, 33, as Baron Frankenstein, and Flashdance Star Jennifer Beals, 20, as Eva, whom the good doctor whips up in the lab as a mate for his born-again monster. "I thought it would be interesting to play someone who came back from the dead but was still very human," says Beals. Understandably, her character shuns Frank...
...Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid he got lost in a clever construct of old movie clips. By the time The Man with Two Brains came out, Martin's stand-up audience had deserted him. A pity: they missed a small, funny film that provided, in its Frankenstein plot of a surgeon in love with the body of one woman and the brain of another, an '80s allegory of man's quest for Ms. Right...