Word: ghosts
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...Stine. He didn't exactly disappear or, as a Goosebumps book might put it, Vanish without a trace! (It's hard to be invisible when there are more than 300 million copies of your books in print.) But he did all of a sudden turn pretty ectoplasmic, a ghost of best sellers past, bumping around in the publishing basement, listening to the patter of tiny feet as his millions of former readers rushed to buy the latest Harry Potter...
Guinness would search the globe for new accents and characters: Japanese (A Majority of One), Bedouin (Lawrence of Arabia), Russian (Doctor Zhivago), Indian (A Passage to India). His transparency made it easy for him to incarnate specters; he was Marley's Ghost in Scrooge and Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars--the role that heaped on him the annoyance of multigenerational fame. But "the force" was not with Guinness; delicacy and subversive wit were...
...cover this convention," gushed CNN's Jeff Greenfield, "were first drawn to it by John F. Kennedy?" When Haynes Johnson mentioned that Schlossberg is 42 - the same age as JFK when he was nominated in this very city! - PBS's panel of presidential historians gasped as if Jack's ghost had just pulled up and taken a swig of Michael Beschloss's coffee...
They're red herrings, naturally. The Spencer house really is ghost-ridden. But once that fact is established, What Lies Beneath begins to succumb to a common genre problem. When the haunt ceases to be a set of eerie manifestations and begins to take on shape and form, all the spooky fun tends to drain out of these pictures. This one becomes a variation on the Fatal Attraction theme, but with more muscular action and, finally, a lot less plausibility. That's too bad, because the early wit of Clark Gregg's writing and some persuasive direction and playing...
...Consult the crystal ball 2. __'s Ghost (Ondaatje novel) 3. __ Valley (site of Reagan Library) 4. 53-Across was a huge 19th century exporter of this 5. High-pressure Wall Street specialist, for short 6. Swerve off course 7. Must-have in an Iditarod 8. __.gov (site that will consolidate 20,000 current government websites) 9. Western treaty gp. since 1948 10. Drag queen's wrap 13. House members have agreed to ease the food embargo on it 15. Confederate-flag items 19. Hubbubs 21. Kiltie? 22. This was rationed beginning July 1, 1918 24. Victims of the Morlocks...