Word: pumpkinhead
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...colony of pocket-size people living alongside humans. A woman harvests children from a crop of potatoes. A boy born with keys on his hands instead of fingers spends his life looking for things (doors, security boxes, women) to unlock. Bender ensnares you with an enticing opening line--"The pumpkinhead couple got married"--and confidently leads you into her phantasmagoric realm from there. Thankfully she stops short of fairy-tale morals; in their place we're given sublime studies on sorrow, grief, kindness and love...
...only one in the Clinton family). Donald Nixon had shady business dealings. Billy Carter lobbied for Libya and peddled Billy Beer. The hard-drinking Sam Houston Johnson was practically kept under White House arrest by L.B.J. Roger Clinton, a mediocre musician and sometime actor (playing "Mayor Bubba" in Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings), lived up to his bad-brother billing recently by abusing a nightclub bouncer and getting arrested for drunk driving--all after receiving a presidential pardon himself. He also submitted his own list of six pardon candidates to his brother; none made it to the final list. The only...
...Pumpkinhead II, due this fall, he plays a mayor protecting his city from a giant humanoid squash...
...ones, on the other hand, you can trade them in for a couple of ruby slippers. Under what guise did Ozma, the legitimate ruler whose place the Wizard took, pass the majority of her childhood? And a pun referring to what conveyance so offended even the long-suffering Jack Pumpkinhead that he momentarily stopped smiling? This weekend and next, 8 p.m. at Dunster House (also 11 on Saturday...
...Winters' dream from boyhood days when he wanted to become a general (to no one at all, young Johnny would shout repeatedly, "The rest of you are privates"). Agnes Moorehead, a suitably grating witch, all but punctured the screen with her cockney accent, and Sterling Holloway, as Jack Pumpkinhead, cried seeds instead of tears. Hostess Temple herself, whose new series will include such additional material as Winnie-the-Pooh and Kim, played-within her limitations -both Princess Ozma and the boy Tip. She turned up for the new season deglamorized, lacking the airy coiffure and shining lipstick which...