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...they trek around the capital city of Port-of-Spain; second and most noticeably, they forget much of their clothing. But this is Carnival, and for Trinidadians the entire social year revolves around this event - which also attracts tens of thousands of foreigners, like myself, who themselves become Trini, if only for a short time...
...semifinals are great food, great drinks, great company-paradise on earth. If the world only knew-we islanders have kept it a secret," laughs Stephen Choo Quan, 32, an expat Trini living in the U.S., who tries to get home every year to attend. Anthony McQuilkin, 63, has played the bass pan in Desperadoes for over 40 years. Desperadoes is a 120-member steel band that was formed in the 1940s, and has won Panorama 10 times since the competition's inception. "The musical arrangements are very intricate," he says. "Every player has been practicing this tune...
...Carnival Monday (it's Feb. 27 this year). But the semifinals are where the real action is. "The semifinals are great food, great drinks, great company - paradise on earth. If the world only knew - we islanders have kept it a secret," laughs Stephen Choo Quan, 32, an expat Trini living in the U.S., who tries to get home every year to attend. Anthony McQuilkin, 63, has played the bass pan in Desperadoes for over 40 years. Desperadoes is a 120-member steel band that was formed in the 1940s, and has won Panorama 10 times since the competition's inception...
...people passing through walls, ectoplasm accidents, anatomically unstable ghosts. People are dying, and Bannister, who is the only one who can see the ghosts and those marked for death, must find out why, with the help of special effects. He also has an Andie-MacDowell-lookalike friend, Lucy Lynskey (Trini Alvarado), and, enhanced by special effects, things quickly go awry. In addition, the possibility of the existence of special effects is also examined...
...absence (when he's not off fighting in America's Civil War, he's lost in philosophical musings), a mother's bustling idealism, romances appropriate and inappropriate, the constant threat of poverty and illness. Eventually Jo (the luminous Winona Ryder) embraces art and an older man (Gabriel Byrne); Meg (Trini Alvarado) embraces domesticity; Amy (played as a child by Kirstin Dunst of Interview with the Vampire, as a young woman by Samantha Mathis) embraces--and shapes up--the attractive boy next door. And poor retiring Beth (Claire Danes, who stars in a television series, My So-Called Life) embraces death...