Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cotton Mather saw evidence of ghosts, witchcraft and "dia-bolical handling" in the morally rarefied air of 17th-century Boston. He reports, "An army of devils is horribly broke in upon the place which is the center, and after a sort, the first-born of our English settlements: and the houses of the good people there are filled with the doleful shrieks of their children and servants, tormented by invisible hands, with tortures altogether preternatural." Strangely familiar? Who has not heard "doleful shrieks" through the walls of their room as reading period wanes? Who has not felt opposed...
...short, it's almost as if we're watching Danes's audition tapes before she became the accomplished actress we know today. Her performance (and the movie as a whole) is like a ghost from her past. Only in the past, her name was Angela Chase--and we enjoyed her emotional journey so much more...
...words that appear on the cover of the band's first album. It was originally recorded as a demo on a two track in his basement. "My dad probably has it now," says Duritz. The song was actually supposed to appear on Recovering the Satellites as a ghost track, showing up unannounced at the end of the album. The album turned out to be too long, however, and so "August and Everything After" was pulled. Asked if the song would ever appear on record shelves, Duritz responds that he is not sure. The song is legendary among fans...
Similarly, the scene in which the ghost of the murdered Bhangane appears at Mabatha's coronation feast remains extraordinarily powerful in translation: wearing a huge, white wooden mask and long twists of rope representing his "gory locks," he is a terrifying apparition as he stomps ominously across the stage, pointing at the murderous King and intoning "Mabatha! Mabatha! Mabatha!" This is one of the joys of watching Umabatha: it succeeds in creating an alchemical marriage between the old story and the new setting...
...another dysfunctional-family Thanksgiving drama, this time with a little incest and crises of identity thrown in. Josh Hamilton plays a troubled fellow who brings home his supremely normal fiancee (Tori Spelling, who's surprisingly good in this sugar-cookie role) only to confront the ghost of his past in his sister, "Jackie O" (a delightfully demented Parker Posey), who sports an obsession with the JFK assassination among her myriad kooky charms. What makes this setup more than just a gimmicky grab-bag for originality is its success in mixing the familiar and the disturbing in the composition...