Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...repeat the phenomenon in the Western world." An additional part of the strategy, says Kubo, was to hide its "Japan-ness." Nintendo of America and its Japanese partners brought in Al Kahn, who developed the Cabbage Patch doll, to help with toy merchandising. "There's a little bit of magic in what Nintendo does," says Sussane Daniels, president of entertainment at the WB. "We wouldn't interfere with their methods. God bless them." But Nintendo did ask for changes to be made to the original Japanese show (which now has 130 episodes). "We tried not to have violence or sexual...
...skinny on Bardo Pond, you might want to look up some of their terminology. Among the band's releases are albums entitled Bufo Alvarus and Aminata, words for hallucinogenic frogs and magic mushrooms, respectively. Their individual songs tend to focus on subjects such as Tibet, Buddha and outer space...
...like in The Nightmare Before Christmas." This is not the real world. He takes a fantasy world, a surreal world, and makes it unbelievably believable. And it's not real. It's so odd looking, but you believe it wholeheartedly. And that's part of his magic...
...staring out with curiously dead brown eyes and long tousled blond hair. But she seems awfully young next to Depp. Their romance is a curious blend of mild flirtation and terrible one-liners that leave the audience wondering whether to laugh or cringe; with lines like "You're white magic," you never know if Burton's being serious...
...death, Lady Van Tassel yields a new twist to the plot. Richardson, for most of the movie, gives a fair, airy performance, but her final scene is beyond awful. Her monologue summing up the plot may be intentionally trite, but regardless, its a poor anticlimax. It destroys all the magic built up in the suspenseful buildup towards the conclusion. Aside from this last disaster Richardson is tolerable, providing a cool presence in the earlier scenes and wearing noticeably patterned floor-sweeping dresses that always seems about to burst in the chest...