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Thanks to its grotesqueries, the Mutter is beginning to trade offbeat obscurity for popular renown. Five years ago, it drew just 4,300 visitors; this year's attendance will be nearly four times that. Says Worden, who has appeared on David Letterman's show three times: "We're getting better known because we're just so interesting." The museum's photo calendar, she adds, sells briskly. The first ones, issued in 1993, are now collector's items, at $40 apiece. Each picture, like each exhibit, is a memento mori, a ghoulish reminder of our own mortality, malevolently fascinating, weirdly beautiful...
Smith and Mosier replaced fellow offbeat filmmaker Quentin Tarantino as guest speakers at yesterday's study group...
These reactions fail to do justice to the wealth of excellent scholarship showcased at the symposium. Of course there were hits and misses; not all the panels were equally strong While much of the scholarship presented was highly creative, a fair amount of it was offbeat...
...central device in Alan Ayckbourn's Communicating Doors is a portal between hotel suites that carries women who step through it either 20 years forward or 20 years back in time. This idea may seem offbeat even for a farce, but it is not surprising from a man whose nearly 50 other plays involve such tricks as a robot spouse used in a child-custody battle; audience choices that provide a script with 16 endings; and a three-story house seen on one level (with actors tiptoeing up and down -- that is, back and forth -- along imaginary stairs). "Games...
...pitcher the Padres had ever known; he led his team to their only National League pennant in 1984, and held the club strikeout record. The public may remember him best as the hurler who gave up Pete Rose's record 4,192nd career hit in 1985. In his typically offbeat way, Show simply sat down on the pitcher's mound while the crowd went wild...