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...latest project--despite the standard action-packed previews--is decidedly Burton genre. Sleepy Hollow takes the basic outline of a suspenseful story, complicates it, and wraps it up in a shadowy portrait another alternate reality...
...illuminates Dante's stained glass portrait. Contemplate possible religious significance...
...actually hard to imagine how, for Microsoft, it could have come out any worse. The ruling carefully lays out the factual basis for the major antitrust violations that seem certain to follow. And it paints an exceedingly dark portrait of one of America's most admired companies. The Microsoft of Judge Jackson's narrative is a deep-pocketed bully that uses "its prodigious market power and immense profits to harm" companies that presume to compete with it. And it presents Gates as a law-flouting monopolist who makes a "threat" to one rival considering getting into the software market...
...research included] historical accounts and paintings. I went to the National Portrait gallery in London. We read this manners book, called What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew which was heaven. I realized that the thing about this period was that everything was sacrificed for the sake of appearance. [The costume man told me] one's trousers must be so tight they show one's mood...
...photographer, the one in Vanity Fair and Details, the new Annie Leibovitz with the pedal to the metal. Look at his portrait of Madonna or Marilyn Manson, right, and it's settled: for extremity, hilarity and high pitch, LaChapelle is the one. So when any given picture is two tons of fun, does it matter that he lacks any gravity? Maybe. Taken in bulk, with the wagging tongues and the thrust butts coming at you on every page, you have to admit to fun fatigue. There are times when you can go over the top and still not get anywhere...