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...tiny W and E, which run north and south. Lulled by interstate monotony, the unwary sometimes fail to notice the split, and circle the city on the 35s and their various permutations until they give up and opt for Waco. That furnishes the underpinning for the legend of the ghost of I-35. It is said in Western truck stops that once a young couple with a small child (some versions claim twin children) circled Dallas in July until their auto air conditioner failed and they died, and that on still nights when the moon is full and there...
...vapors formed a three-mile-wide cloud that loomed like fog over the area, police cruised through the streets ordering residents to clear out once more. This time almost 30,000 area residents fled. It was the largest evacuation in Ohio history, transforming Miamisburg into a temporary ghost town...
...figure is lying, are shaped quite like that. In the dressed version we find the explanation. Bound and corseted, they assume exactly that shape." And why did Goya pursue this fantasy? "Because he was haunted by the fact that he imagined her naked . . . He painted it to exorcise a ghost...
Sometimes a film is so exhilarating, it's exhausting. Big Trouble in Little China describes itself as a "mystical action-adventure-comedy-kung-f u- monster-ghost story." It is plenty savvy in deploying plot devices from a dozen hoary genres while playing up the absurdities in the familiar Deadpan Facetious style. A Frisco truck driver (Kurt Russell) and his Chinese-American pal (Dennis Dun) amble into a battle beyond death fought by a 2,000-year-old bad guy (James Hong) and a Yoda-esque mensch (Victor Wong). In this Temple of Doom there are girls with green eyes...
Some disgruntled Hollywood figure whom Welles had crossed in the past? Perhaps the old rumors are true, and the ghost of Herman Mankiewicz, Welles' undercredited collaborator on Citizen Kane, still walks among...