Word: ghosts
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...From Hell," the second underground-comix-originated movie in one year (after "Ghost World") comes out in October. Based on Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's deeply creepy Jack-the-Ripper series of the same title, it stars Johnny Depp and Heather Graham. The original creators had nothing to do with the adaptation and it sounds dubious, but we shall see. Meanwhile the original authors are coming out with another single-issue comic, "Snakes and Ladders," self-published by Campbell in September. Apparently it involves Oliver Cromwell and the pre-Raphaelites and the history of the universe...
...movies, and Abrahams regressed to unnecessary punctuation with the Hot Shots! flicks. Jerry, for his part, decided it was time to put the spoofs behind him. "I got tired of satire," he says. "It was fun, but I didn't feel like doing it again." So he directed Ghost, the hit 1990 supernatural romance that won Goldberg an Oscar, as well as First Knight, the dud 1995 Arthurian epic starring Sean Connery and Richard Gere. He also produced 1997's My Best Friend's Wedding, but not until Rat Race did he get back behind the camera to make another...
...small problem: while there are thousands of online book clubs for discussing, not buying, books, I quickly learned that most have no focused topic to discuss. What's worse, many are virtual ghost towns long since abandoned by their participants. Unwilling to admit failure--or admit how little time I had spent "researching" this idea--I plowed through dozens of clubs until I found some winners...
...hover in the background: the sense that everything in America is becoming the same." That is the case with most American movies about the young; they are as similar in taste and emotional nourishment as McDonald's is to Burger King. In this arid landscape, the edifice of Ghost World, with all its acute insolence, stands out like the Taj Mahal...
...BOOK Ghost Light by Frank Rich. "What's interesting is that you get a lot of information about the theater, but there's also a great story...