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...between “soil” and “heartland.” The film itself is driven by its energetic camerawork, tantalizing leads, and a madcap soundtrack ranging from vintage French cabaret to the Kinks. Adventurous moviegoers should be driven by curiosity and the desire to stray from the well-beaten Hollywood track, and they will not be disappointed...

Author: By Laura E. Kolbe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: Mondovino | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

Some afternoons he would wander through backyards in the neighborhood, tranquilizer gun ready, chasing stray pets. He did it as if he were the action hero in a hunt-'em-down video game, tracking the creatures with an aggression that for a 7-year-old boy might have been charming, if a bit creepy. In a grown man, it was just weird. The true 7-year-olds knew it too--kids in the area made up a game called Hide from Dennis, taking cover whenever they saw his white van approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was the Killer Next Door? | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

...suspect someone of murder because he is nitpicky or hates stray pets--you probably just decide he is annoying. In fact, Rader's mix of good and bad traits makes him human and relatively normal--which is what experts, though perhaps not the rest of us, expect serial killers to seem. BTK "has done such monstrous crimes, so we want the guy to be a monster, drooling and with one eye in the middle of his forehead," says former FBI profiler Gregg McCrary, author of The Unknown Darkness: Profiling the Predators Among Us. "But we look right through them because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was the Killer Next Door? | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

...Officer reported a stray dog roaming down 9 Lowell St. The dog was promptly returned to the owner...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POLICE LOG | 2/28/2005 | See Source »

Winn-Dixie is a stray who also happens to be perfectly trained to sit, smile, whimper, and howl in harmony to church hymns on command. With the clichéd carefree curiosity of a dog, he proceeds to win the hearts of the townspeople and mend their relationships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO HEADLINE | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

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