Word: sorceresses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...enhanced by his posthumously revealed gayness.) Beedle also comes with amateur but elegant illustrations by Rowling - she's not as good an artist as, say, Mary GrandPré, but then again Mary GrandPré isn't J.K. Rowling. It's interesting to get a sense of how the sorceress herself envisions her creations...
...older brother in Favreau's Zathura, survives the early part of the film, where he's obliged to be restless and annoying, and emerges as an acceptable young hero. The film gets a big boost from Briem, a young Icelandic actress who is both angel-cool and sorceress-hot. (She's for the target kids' older brothers.) Her role is a rare one for this sort of film: a woman as resourceful as the males, but with no agenda to humiliate them...
...hedonistic groundhog day" is how director Justin Way describes Handel's 1735 opera Alcina, and a week from the opening of Way's new production for Opera Australia, Ariosto's epic tale of a sorceress who casts a succession of spellbound lovers into stone is undergoing its own seemingly endless repetitions on the Sydney Opera House stage. It is Act Three in a technical run-through, and as Alcina's enchanted isle crumbles around her, there are the usual technical tweakings of an opera that lives and dies on the strength of its illusion: the elaborate sets seem to have...
...from the canon of literature, theater, and film, but he does so sloppily. This movie has the potential to achieve a Shakespearean tone: Tommy’s mom is something of a female King Lear; Pappass is the ubiquitous wise Fool; and Lady is the shrewd and mystical ethnic sorceress. Duchovny’s writing, however, unwittingly directs these characters away from their potential classical allusions and makes them instead into one-dimensional clich?...
...former Soul Coughing frontman Mike Doughty and Danny Hellman, looks at the titular hero in a tone that dominates many of the book’s stories: the hero as the common, lonely man. Aquaman takes the train to an open mic night at a super-bar called the Sorceress of Follitude. He treats a skeptical audience to a love-ballad called “Mera,” trumped by the arrival of the charismatic bad-boy hero of the bar, Robin. Withering in dejection, Aquaman is picked up by a groupie who invites him back to her place...