Word: stand-in
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DIED. Sid Davis, 90, educational filmmaker of the 1950s and '60s whose dark, cautionary tales terrified baby boomers; in Palm Desert, Calif. A onetime stand-in for John Wayne, Davis made nearly 200 gems, now considered high camp, detailing the perils of marijuana smoking (The Terrible Truth) and sex (Girls, Beware...
...Because it's as ingenious, and remorseless, as its twisted villain. The brilliant, devious psycho-shadow, dreaming up ways for his victims to kill themselves, is a sepulchral stand-in for the writer (Whannel on all three films) and the director (James Wan on the first, Darren Lynn Bousman on the next two). They are playing the same murderous mind games on the audience - which is trapped, not in a urinal dungeon or a booby-trapped house, but in the darkness of a movie theater or rec room...
...gets even better. When seminal band Flipper needed a temporary stand-in singer to round out their hilarious and horrible noise, they asked Moby to step in. So, for two days, Moby was the lead singer of Flipper...
...available, free of charge, to researchers on the Web. Why mice? It's impossible to get the live samples of human brain neurons needed to map the human brain genome in the same way, but people and mice share 90% of brain genes, making the mouse a pretty good stand...
...early career, like those of most actors, was a series of frustrating absurdities. Jackson originated the role of Boy Willie in August Wilson's The Piano Lesson but was shunted to understudy when Charles S. Dutton became available. Jackson also spent two years as Bill Cosby's on-set stand-in for The Cosby Show. (He does a formidable Cos impression.) After Pulp Fiction made him famous in his mid-40s, Jackson settled into his current rhythm of mixing prestige projects with what might fondly be called exuberant crap. For both, his preparation is obsessive. He writes out full character...