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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next play, senior tailback Troy Jones bounced out to the left sideline for a touchdown and a 21-17 Harvard lead. It looked like that score would stand when senior cornerback Kane Waller intercepted a Walland pass with around four minutes left in the Game, but the offense went three-and-out to give arguably the greatest quarterback in Yale history one final chance...
...goes. But there's always next year...
...three years before Burton released his next film--Beetlejuice. Yet another twisted tale, centering this time around a pair of "newlydeads," the Maitlands, played by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis and the "bio-exorcist" (Michael Keaton) they hire to clean out their home of its new yuppie occupants. The film, despite (or perhaps owing to) its weird atmosphere, unusual characters and occasionally cheesy special-effects, was yet another success for Burton, and he was then tapped by Warner Brothers to direct their biggest project at that time--Batman...
...Burton's next project was the production of The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), a stop-motion animated film based upon a three-page poem written by Burton while working at Disney. Disney gave Burton the go-ahead for the project, and while he didn't direct it, he was deeply involved in the development process. The story, set like Scissorhands and Batman Returns at Christmas, is about Jack Skellington, the ruler of Halloweentown and his suffering what amounts to a mid-life crisis. Upon discovering Christmastown, Jack believes that this is a way to re-invigorate Halloween, and he misguidedly...
...release of Burton's next film, and his return to directing. Ed Wood told the story of Hollywood's most famous bad director (played by Johnny Depp), who, in the '50s, made a number of awful films, the epitome being the infamous Plan 9 From Outer Space. The film handles Wood's story delicately, never mocking the character but rather focusing on the earnestness that is at the heart of Wood's "best" work...