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...Bourne has a special talent for narrative clarity: you can always follow one of his stories, even if you don't know the original. That's a must for Edward Scissorhands , the tale of a boy stitched together in a forbidding castle by a lonely inventor who dies, leaving his scarred, preternaturally gentle creature to be discovered by the folks in the middle-class folks neighborhood just below the castle. (In the movie, that street of dizzyingly matched pastel homes was a real place: Tinsmith's Circle in Lutz...
...choreographer hews closely to the film's plot, but makes a few modifications to give it a Bourne identity. For one thing, Edward begins as a real boy who's killed in a freak accident. (Helpful hint, kids: Don't play with scissors during an electrical storm.) And the inventor doesn't construct a new boy; rather he strives to revive the dead one. In another tweak, the local teenagers, led by Kim's dastard beau, are responsible for the Inventor's death (though Bourne doesn't pursue this line to its logical confrontation). There's also a severe reduction...
Next time you reward Rex for fetching the paper, leave the doggy biscuits in the cupboard and pour him a cold beer instead. Thanks to one Dutch inventor, parched pooches now have their very own brand of booze. Arjan Berendsen first got the idea for Kwispelbier (Waggy Tail Ale in Dutch) after an afternoon's hunting. "I felt bad that the dog could only drink water while my wife and I were enjoying our beer. After all, he'd done all the work...
...telescope is not new; he thinks the idea may have occurred to Isaac Newton, who knew about the behavior of spinning fluids and built one of the first reflecting telescopes. Borra knows that Robert Wood of Johns Hopkins University built a primitive model in 1908. "I am not the inventor," says Borra. "But I am the first to make it work and the first to know what to do with...
Drum-tensioning device: Two years before he died, Brando filed for a patent on a way of adjusting the tuning on a drum. He coulda been an inventor...