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...MONSTER'S BALL...
...more trouble than they know; give lots of screen space and time to yearning stares; and, about 40 min. into the anomie, kill off a soulful son with a surprise gun blast. That's the recipe for In the Bedroom, which won a slew of critics' awards, and for Monster's Ball, a pained drama that is better than it sounds...
...when he premiered the song in a 1930 film of the same name. Dear Mr. Gable "sang" it in "Idiot?s Delight," in 1939; then Astaire made it his own. For Mel Brooks fans, the definitive rendition is by Peter Boyle, as the top-hatted monster in the 1974 "Young Frankenstein." We have to wonder what Berlin thought of this interpretation, or of the jaunty techno-pop version that went to #4 in 1983 - 53 years after Richman first...
...teach their children not to use the word hate, who believe in balancing justice with mercy, who prize due process--people, in other words, unaccustomed to bloodlust--now watch the daisy cutters shave the White Mountains bald and see the smoke curl and await the news that the monster in the cave has claimed his last human sacrifice...
...MONSTER GOOSE By Judy Sierra and Jack E. Davis. $16.00 Postmodernism has come to children's books. There were at least three titles in 2001 that deconstructed nursery rhymes. This is the most deliciously icky, populated with comically dyspeptic characters and the cleverest plays on the original rhymes ("Young King Cole was a terrible troll:/ He washed his feet in the toilet bowl"). Warning: There are some lines parents probably will not want to hear over and over...