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...took me three months to gain it. (Afterwards I became a total vegan for six months and I lost it in a month and a half). I got four copies of Sleepy Hollow, I wached the Disney film, and I got the '77 TV movie, where Jeff Goldblum played Ichabod Crane--and actually Dick Butkus played my role.... You guys can quote me on this: I took nothing from what Butkus did in that TV movie -- absolutely nothing for my role...
...caught a preview screening of the new Tim Burton movie, Sleepy Hollow, this past week and totally expected a watered-down, commercialized version of the Ichabod Crane anti-fairy tale. After all, the last Tim Burton movie was Mars Attacks, a big-budget indie movie that flopped miserably. What's the chance of studios giving him his way again? There's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that Sleepy Hollow isn't watered down, predictable or commercial at all. Reminiscent of Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, this is textbook Burton--shadowy visuals, injections of visceral comedy...
...major new example of the expanded short story: Sleepy Hollow. Already, director Tim Burton has distanced himself from the classic short story by Washington Irving--Irving's work was titled "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." The plot is drastically different. In the tale, immortalized in a short Disney cartoon, Ichabod Crane is a thin, lanky schoolteacher with romantic designs on a local landowner's daughter, Katrina Van Tassel. In Crane's way is Brom Van Brunt, a big lug who frightens Crane with a story about the Headless Horseman--a rumored supernatural denizen known for his penchant for swiping...
...Burton's film, however, gleefully embraces the existence of the Horseman; the trailer begins with the decapitated equestrian removing 12 pounds of ugly fat from a local. Furthermore, Ichabod Crane is no longer a mild-mannered, homely schoolteacher but a snobby constable from New York City, played by Johnny Depp. Many new characters have been added, including several new supernatural denizens of the superstitious town. The result is what promises to be a dark, complex, and, as always with Burton, thoroughly weird and wonderful film, a cross between Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, with just a hint...
...Days, Arnold Schwarzenegger must stop Satan (Gabriel Byrne) from taking a human bride. Johnny Depp stars in three upscale creepies: as a space traveler in The Astronaut's Wife, as a bookseller searching for an accursed text in Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate and as Ichabod Crane in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. Late this month Samuel L. Jackson will chase, or run like hell from, a pack of very smart sharks in Deep Blue...