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...direction of the floating yellow keyhole that is my gateway to the next imaginary environment. I can visit a virtual kitchen (complete with drippy faucet and ticking clock), take a virtual picnic (featuring 3-D sound cues from buzzing gnats) or make an appearance at the Mad Hatter's tea party. But by now I've broken out in a clammy sweat, and I've become acutely aware of the people lined up behind me waiting their turn on the machine. Have they been watching me wrestling spastically with my DataGlove? Have I been making a fool of myself...
Peter Hirsch is a superb male lead, juggling the roles of the emcee, the game-show host, Dodgson, the Mad Hatter, Lewis Carroll, Karpov and Humpty Dumpty. His timing is impecca ble and his versatility, in all of his capabilities, is astounding...
Nancy Thompson was a modern Nancy Drew. And in Renny Harlin's Nightmare 4, Alice Johnson is Alice in Wonderland, falling through the hole of her consciousness into a war with the Mad Felt-Hatter. All the Nightmare films are compact encyclopedias of classical and pop allusions. They quote Poe and Cocteau, Hamlet and Balinese dream theory; they crib ruthlessly from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jaws, Poltergeist and themselves. They are cultural carnivores...
ASTORY THAT is "completely false and completely true." It sounds like the kind of paradox that the Mad Hatter and the March Hare might fling at poor Alice as she sits with them at the tea table, minding her manners. "Tell us a story that is completely false and completely true...
...novel reads like a breeze, and its strength is Arensberg's spoofing of two ostensibly glamorous worlds, publishing and theater. The author once worked as an editor at Viking Press, and she writes of the industry with affectionate exasperation. There is a wonderful Mad Hatter editorial meeting, propelled by reasoning of the most tangential sort. There are the elusive editors who dread authors as "walking vessels of petty grievance and conceit." An especially funny cameo is Allan Schieffman, the macho editor who boasts to Frances that "Norman Mailer had punched him in the stomach, an affectionate punch, and a tribute...