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...anything else you, or anyone else in the room, may have to say. A typical night will find upwards of 300 people scattered throughout the most popular palaces, which include South Park, Korn Korner and the original Palace Gate. "We add at least two new rooms every episode," says Tod Foley, who designed and runs South Park for Comedy Central. "Sometimes we go nuts and add six or seven. We look at it like a big online Renaissance fair...
Bill Russell's book, however, is short on ideas, guts or much tension. Near the end, director Tod Browning comes on to offer the sisters parts in his new movie. They light up but are jolted back to cruel reality when he tells them the film's name: Freaks. It seems a cheap shot, especially since that 1932 film (in which the Hiltons did appear) showed a compassion for the deformed and despised that Side Show can only simulate. On the other hand, it didn't have anything resembling a hit single...
Boston was chosen as this year's site for several reasons, including its large college population, social diversity and historical flavor, according to casting researcher Tod Dahlke...
Hiding beneath the bed are the results of Sid's experiments: mutant toys as bizarre as anything seen in a Hollywood film since the human oddities in Tod Browning's 1932 Freaks. Creepiest is Babyhead, a doll's head--its hair plucked, an eye missing--perched on Erector-set legs. The neat trick Toy Story pulls off is to make these creatures first repulsive, then poignant and finally heroic...
Richard's best friend and worst enemy is the daft, cheerful Gwyn Barry, whose glib utopian novel, Amelior, has rocketed to the top of the bestseller list. Stupid, shallow and immensely popular, Gwyn resembles Tod Friendly, the ex-Nazi from Amis' last novel, Time's Arrow. Of course, the public laps up Amelior, as Richard (who, as a soon-to-be-ex-novelist, has plenty of time on his hands) begins to plot revenge...