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Where to begin? There's Bannister, pseudo-Andie-MacDowell, and her "I'm uptight" uptight health nut husband Ray (Peter Dobson) who dies and must communicate with her by making Fox act like Whoopi Goldberg in "Ghost." There are the people dying, their number inscribed on their foreheads, all at the hands of a flying throw rug. There's the haunted house, its owner, her daughter (Dee Wallace-Stone), and her lover. There's the "real character" of an weird FBI agent (Jeffrey Combs) who, while getting to the bottom of this, has his hair slicked in a horrendous Hitler...

Author: By Nicholas R. Rapold, | Title: Latest Fox Flick Is Abominable | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

There's a ghost judge whom we get to see demonstrating how he thinks his ectoplasm has not dried up after...

Author: By Nicholas R. Rapold, | Title: Latest Fox Flick Is Abominable | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

...world probably have a slightly worse record for producing sane, responsible, intelligent parents than most families do. Monarchs have rarely been role models of any kind, probably because they felt no need to be. The role of the inspired prince as leader--the type of whom Charles is the ghost's memory of a remnant--vanished long ago, and following Agincourt, the servants have done the fighting. Princes of the royal blood since then have opened trade shows or talked to trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILDHOOD IN A FISHBOWL | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

...Great Gatsby and plowed through endless fashion magazines to avoid sloshing in the tracks of the white whale. Although I'm an American history and literature concentrator, I have as yet evaded a re-reading of Melville's tome (sacrilege in many Harvard quarters), but I think Ahab's ghost may return to haunt me next year in 19th-century literature...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Summer Offers Time for Pleasure Reading | 7/16/1996 | See Source »

...creators are focusing on fresher paranoias: Gibson's new novel, Idoru (Putnam), due in September, is a ghost story of sorts. And a second September book, Holy Fire (Bantam), by Bruce Sterling, another godfather of cyberpunk, is about intergenerational war. It's set 100 years in the future, in an age ruled by a wealthy centenarian gerontocracy whose disenfranchised children are readying a revolution based on the terrifying new cognitive landscapes offered by man-computer interfaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LITERATURE OF NERDS GOES MAINSTREAM | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

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