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Hitchcockian: that adjective instantly conjures dark ballads sung with a puckish lilt. The darkness--the evil that befalls beautiful people--infuses the best of the 14 films in this handsome DVD set: Shadow of a Doubt, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds. (The package also includes nifty docs on the making of the last two films.) Viewers saw the director's impish side as host of the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the first season of which is now available in a separate set. That makes for a two-box festival of Hitch--some ephemeral, most of it seminal...
...MirrorMask” is the story of Helena, a young girl who stumbles upon a passage to an alternate world of masks through a mirror. Her adventures take her through a magical world, seen only in work like McKean’s, and into interactions with her Puckish guide Valentine and the villainous Queen of Shadows. It is like “Alice in Wonderland” through the modern looking glass...
Rapunzel is scheduled for a 2008 release. It is to follow next year's fantasy trip Meet the Robinsons, in which a boy is taken in by a wonderfully eccentric family, and, in 2007, the hip, puckish American Dog, about a canine celebrity who thinks he's still on his TV show when he's really stranded in the desert. Those three films have a high standard to meet in the sassy, bouncy Chicken Little. The title character (voiced by Zach Braff) has huge glasses and a studious mien. And, oh, is this chick adorable, whether trying...
Both these premises were, to say the least, from left field. But in each book, Carkeet demonstrated a gift for devising oddball characters and situations, then persuading the reader that they were real. In his third novel, I Been There Before, Carkeet's puckish fantasy finds Mark Twain, who was born during the 1835 appearance of Halley's comet and who died during its return in 1910, brought back to life once more by the comet's visit in 1985. From there the implausibilities mount. Twain engages in time travel. When events do not turn out as he likes...
Throughout Faust's ordeal, though especially in this last 5-6 season, he and his team have experienced such infernal luck that the university's puckish publicist Roger Valdiserri has been sighing, "You'd think Madalyn Murray O'Hair was our spiritual adviser." But beyond the bad breaks, the coach was also inclined to try 52-yd. field goals in head winds when a punt was preferable to a prayer. "Blessed Mother," Faust murmured on the sidelines, "haven't you tested me enough?" His players mumbled much the same thing. In light of such failed piety, Notre Dame's traditional...