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...found in McGann a perfect celluloid soul mate to explore these shadowlands. With Possum, his award-winning 1996 short, the filmmaker, trained at Melbourne's Swinburne school, found improbable lightness in the dark fable of a boy and his autistic sister at the turn of last century. With Father's Den, he sets a match to New Zealand's "cinema of unease," the phrase coined by Sam Neill to describe the country's love affair with darkness. "I need a cigarette to cope with this kind of scenery," says Paul at one point. So, too, might audience-goers, so slowly...
...possum has landed!" Crowd at the New year's Eve possum drop, an annual ritual in Brasstown, North Carolina, that parodies the dropping of a ball in New York's Times Square. A live possum is used...
...national election year in 1952, and Pogo the possum, the strip’s central character, was contemplating a run for president. Harvard students planned to greet Pogo’s creator in full force, staging a “Pogo for President” rally in Harvard Square, complete with buttons and posters made by School of Design students...
...when the once-youthful possum appears on the 50th reunion letterhead, he sports bifocals and a golf club—just like many members of the class...
...officer observed a possum which was acting disorderly on the Science Center plaza. The officer escorted the possum from the plaza...