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...school was buoyed by the fall announcement that Associate Dean Catherine E. Snow would serve as acting dean. But the morale dipped again as the dean search dragged on longer than anyone had predicted, with several can didates withdrawing themselves from consideration...
...time constraints, many faculty membersspeculate, make Rudenstine more likely to choosean internal candidate for the deanship. Snow,professor of Education and Urban Studies CharlesV. Willie and former academic dean Jerome T.Murphy were rumored to be top candidates in theoriginal search...
...popular hits -- he didn't show it. No screaming, no broken crockery. "He's the most un-Hollywood person I've ever met," says his co-producer, Denise Di Novi, who believes Burton's breakthrough came with Scissorhands, another Christmas phantasmagoria about lonely creatures making sad magic in the snow. "He connected with himself," she says, "and his art became much more intimate." Now, without Batman producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters hovering, Burton would make his own film. "You see glimmers of Tim in Batman," Di Novi says, "but this movie...
Burton's gift is to make movies about beguiling outsiders -- the dead couple reclaiming their home in Beetlejuice, the deformed snow sculptor Edward Scissorhands, even the childlike Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens plays the Penguin's father here). Burton inverts pictures and fictions, and makes it seem as if he has just turned them right side up. In Batman Returns, everything is familiarly topsy-turvy. Black is good -- Batman, of course -- and white or bright is bad. Max, the rapacious industrialist, has a Stokowskian white mane that helps Gothamites think of him as Santa Claus, though Selina derisively calls...
...ironic perspective. "The movie is very vertical," says Welch, who also designed Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. "It goes from the penguin in the sewers to a flying rodent. So these are aggressive sets, not passive backdrops incidental to the action." The visual contrasts -- big on little, bright on brooding, snow on soot -- give the film a distinct, witty style: Dark Lite...