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...five or six things at once." Imagine Victor Hugo trying to write Les Misérables with Jean Valjean under the reader's control and you'll get some idea of what Houser is up against. The player is both the audience and the ghost - a mischievous poltergeist - in the machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grand Theft Auto's Extreme Storytelling | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

Kennedy and Marshall worked with Spielberg again on E.T. and Poltergeist, and in 1982 they formed a production company with him, Amblin Entertainment. Ten years later, as Spielberg prepared to found DreamWorks, Kennedy and Marshall decided to strike out on their own. "We wanted to have a family"--the traditional kind, says Kennedy. (They have two daughters, 9 and 11.) "We didn't want to become movie moguls and move into being executives within a company. We like making movies." Husband and wife produce films separately as well as together. Bourne is Marshall's baby, Diving Bell Kennedy's. Crystal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Power Couple | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...Speaking of last shots, it's time for the critics to take theirs, too. I have my share of pet Potter peeves - including Peeves the poltergeist, who spends his afterlife being eternally unfunny - and I'll never get a better chance to air them. I've always found the Accio charm to be ridiculously useful, to the point where it's implausible even by magical standards - "Accio Hagrid" indeed! The house-elves are strangely overpowered too: they can, for example, apparate in and out of Hogwarts, a fact that Rowling notes but doesn't really explain. With Dobby freed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harry Potter's Last Adventure | 7/21/2007 | See Source »

...sweaty, freshman-filled parties in Lowell Bell Tower or the monotonous common room Beirut nights, they often have nowhere to turn. But some of the residents of Leverett F-Tower have begun to offer up silly, song-filled alternatives, like last fall’s “Poltergeist: The Legacy: The Musical...

Author: By Bob Payne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 13: Making Life Fun, One Poltergasm at a Time | 11/16/2005 | See Source »

...from a gender-confused priest, Philip, played by Laura D. Hallett ’06, to a memorable “poltergasm” scene. Fellow performer Sara F. DiMaggio ’06 describes the scene as “an orgasm where you suddenly turn into a poltergeist...

Author: By Bob Payne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 13: Making Life Fun, One Poltergasm at a Time | 11/16/2005 | See Source »

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