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Harryhausen was a master of stop-motion, the laborious, handmade form of animation that lives today in the work of Oscar winner Nick Park (A Close Shave) and Selick, whose previous feature was Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. This is a jauntier piece--more Disneyfied, perhaps, but still apt to leave a haunting impression on the children who see it. And when they finally read the Dahl book, they may be annoyed. Why, they will wonder, couldn't it be more like this movie...
...local law enforcement, which in those parts means Sheriff Charles Phipps and his deputy. Since April 1, 1994, when the Clarks first retreated to their farms, later to be joined by fugitives from other areas, the Freemen have posted $1 million bounties on the heads of Phipps, county attorney Nick Murnion and local bankers, threatened to kidnap and hang local judges, and put phony liens on the property of anyone who got in their way. Prosecutors say they used one bogus money order in a failed attempt to buy $1.4 million in arms and ammunition...
...anyone but Mel Gibson and Pat Buchanan have thought Braveheart the very best movie of 1995? But on one matter, few of the cognoscenti would argue. The freshest, most beguiling film to win an Oscar last week was an epic you may have never heard of: A Close Shave, Nick Park's stop-motion, comedy-thriller mini-masterpiece about a dog named Gromit and his pet Englishman, Wallace...
Please be more careful, for your own sakes. If not, I will volunteer to act as an occasional copy editor and would encourage the staff to include this position separate from any administrative editorial position for every issue. Do not let carelessness betray your efforts. --Nick Szumski...
Should the song have been remembered for its message, not its messengers? Perhaps, since the singing characters had already been portrayed as shallow bimbos. Before intermission came, the show also managed a salvo aimed at black urban culture. Stunned silence from some and guffaws from others greeted Nick Gordon's caricature of a performance as Sheik Ir-Bouti, recently returned from Long Island. In addition to the odious attributes of the show's writing, the majority of the actors suffered from overplaying that reached beyond the simply funny and into the realm of the suicide-inspiring...