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| | Romanticism On the Net 8 (November 1997) |
 | | M.G. Lewis." With some poems, Lewis goes even further, citing in a headnote the specific text from which the poem was translated and even citing competing versions by other translators. | | | For all in-text citations, I have used this readily-available edition, which is set from the manuscript of the first edition (1796) that Lewis prepared for his printer. | | | By finding Lewis lacking, they implicitly associate him with the figure of the hack writer who merely copies other novelists in order to manufacture "new" volumes to satisfy the voracious appetites of circulating library patrons. |
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http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1997/v/n8/005775ar.html
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| | Matthew Gregory Lewis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Lewis published a second edition from which he removed what he thought were the objectionable passages, but the work reained much of its horrific character. | | | Lord Byron in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers wrote of "Wonder-working Lewis, Monk or Bard, who fain wouldst make Parnassus a churchyard; Even Satan's self with thee might dread to dwell, And in thy skull discern a deeper hell." | | | Matthew Gregory Lewis (July 9, 1775 - May 14, 1818) was an English novelist and dramatist, often referred to as "Monk" Lewis, because of the success of his Gothic novel, The Monk. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Gregory_Lewis
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| | Nightmareweb |
| | Lewis was originally inspired to write a Gothic novel after reading The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story written by Horace Walpole and The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe. | | | William Beckford (1760-1844), was a novelist, bibliophile, traveller, collector, and builder, and perhaps the richest commoner in England in his day. | | | This tale of lust, betrayal and multiple murder is set in fifteenth-century Venice. |
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http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/spc/homepage/nightmare/Nightmareweb.htm
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| | Port Washington Public Library: Sinclair Lewis Collection - Text Only |
| | This copy illustrated with an ink drawing of Lewis by Conrad. | | | Your Fate is in your Hand / by Josef Ranald ; illustrated with Cuts of Hands of Famous People -- Chicago : Reilly & Lee, c1935. | | | The Dust which is God / William Rose Benet -- limited ed. |
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| | Main Street by Sinclair Lewis |
| | Lewis further enhanced his reputation as national gadfly with two more popular satires: Elmer Gantry (1927), a controversial attack on the hypocrisy of fundamentalist religion as practiced by flamboyant Bible Belt evangelists, and Dodsworth (1929), the tale of a Babbitt-like businessman abroad. | | | He stated: 'I had realized in reading Balzac and Dickens that it was possible to describe French and English common people as one actually saw them. | | | From Main Street to Stockholm, a collection of his letters, was published in 1952, and The Man from Main Street, a compilation of essays and other writings, came out in 1953. |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?067964167X
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| | One of the most popular and respected French novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Julien Viaud, who wrote under the name Pierre Loti, created a series of novels that chronicle the struggle of a man to understand his homoerotic feelings. | | | The Scottish-German John Henry Mackay, who wrote in German, dedicated himself to the cause of gaining sympathetic recognition of man-boy love. | | | Though Katherine Mansfield was reticent in the depiction of lesbianism in her short stories, she had close female friendships and was always deeply concerned with the status of women. |
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http://www.glbtq.com/topic/literature_11_14.html
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| | Diane Hoeveler, On James Watt's _Contesting the Gothic_ - Romantic Circles Reviews, Romantic Circles |
| | In his chapter on Radcliffe, Watt begins by placing her first novel, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789), in the tradition of Loyalist Gothic romances primarily concerned with the property restoration plot (103). | | | By straddling both traditions, the novels "subsumed Gothic conventions within a historical framework, or set up an opposition between romance and real life in order to relegate the Gothic romance to the status of a fictional anachronism" (144). | | | In a wide-ranging reading of a number of obscure works, Watt produces what I consider to be his best chapter. |
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http://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews/back/watt.html
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| | A Brief Historical Overview |
| | The novel was so enormously popular that it was quickly imitated by other novelists, thereby initiating a genre. | | | Inspired by Radcliffe and influenced by German sensationalist horror tales, Matthew Lewis wrote The Monk (1796). | | | The first great practitioner of the Gothic novel, as well the most popular and best paid novelist of the eighteenth century England, was Ann Radcliffe. |
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http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/gothic/history.html
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| | New Statesman: Sisters of mercy - Goth Chic: a Connoisseur's Guid to Dark Culture - Book Review |
| | Writing in 1800, the Marquis de Sade explained his belief that gothic literature was an effect of the French revolution--in the post-guillotine world, "it was necessary to call upon hell" to arouse the reader's interest. | | | In the best bit of the book, Baddeley takes us on a tour of the early exponents of dark literature. | | | There is Sade himself, who "enjoyed whipping and being whipped as well as anal sex with partners of both genders', and Matthew Lewis, author of The Monk, a story about an abbot seduced by a "demon in human form", which was "something like the American Psycho or Exorcist of its day". |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4604_131/ai_107215840
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| | Conversational Reading: July 2005 |
| | Here are two recent statements about literary realism, declarations so typical of their age, so finely characteristic, so normative, that a realist novelist would have been very proud to have imagined them into life. | | | Where the hell did we get this idea of the comfortably wealthy novelist socking away prose in some cabin somewhere? | | | The great Latin American novelists who are glibly pigeon-holed as practicing "magical realism" loathe the term and go out of their way to avoid being tarred by it, yet it's hard to think of a phrase that more succinctly describes Carnivore Diet. |
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http://esposito.typepad.com/con_read/2005/07
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| | Matthew Gregory Lewis -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | A Gothic romance by Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk tells the story of a monk who turns evil and ultimately sells his soul to the devil. | | | Commentary on Matthew by Origen, one of the Fathers of the early Christian church. | | | The English novelist and dramatist Matthew Gregory Lewis became famous overnight after the sensational success of his Gothic novel The Monk, published in 1796. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9315048?tocId=9315048
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Austen, Jane |
| | What makes this elementary matter of interest today is her extraordinary skill in drawing characters, many of whom remain indelibly etched in readers' minds, the elegant economy of her plot, and her skill in showing through irony how different characters present themselves to the world, and either understand or fail to understand the world. | | | Austen's novels were successful in her own day with readers of genteel birth and literary sophistication but were far from being bestsellers and certainly not on a par with the historical novels of Walter Scott or the gothic novels of Matthew Lewis. | | | Her early writings portray just such types (and a good many more), mainly through parodies of contemporary novelistic technique. |
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http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5167
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| | Amazon.com: Quarantine: Books |
| | This book is obviously an experiment, in the same vein of The Last Temptation of Christ (much more rewarding, and more blasphemous). | | | He writes exclusively in the naturalist tradition, pure and true enough to make Isak Dinesen proud. | | | The obvious answer would be that the godless novelist is trying to debunk divinity--to take the entire New Testament down a notch. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374239622?v=glance
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| | Lynch, English 349, Autumn '01 |
| | 269-343; Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel, chapter 4 ("Defoe as Novelist: Moll Flanders"). | | | OED Exercise 4 (on Lewis or Burney) due. |
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http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/01/349
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Lewis, Matthew |
| | The public was particularly struck by the work's various coups-de-theâtre, which included the appearance of a ghost accompanied by a heavenly choir. | | | Lewis also wrote a certain amount of poetry, and although he was never considered a major figure in this field, it was generally agreed by his contemporaries that he was technically very competent: “There's always a violet among his weeds”, as one of his acquaintances somewhat grudgingly conceded. | | | Most critics consider it unfortunate that Lewis did not follow up this side of his talent and produce more novels in the same vein. |
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http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5011
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| | Authors on the Web - Horror Author Roundtable |
| | I love King, Koontz, Straub --- the usual suspects --- but there are a lot of others (Bentley Little, Richard Laymon, T.M. Wright, et al) as well as folks from the small press who all have voices that bring different sensibilities to the tale of terror. | | | Some of his recent work has been amazing. | | | I was schooled in dead people's fiction, and I find that I become a necromancer of them all the time: Arthur Machen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Poe, Matthew Lewis, Charles Brockden Brown, Dickens, M.R. James, Shirley Jackson, and many others. |
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http://www.nyisbookcountry.com/features/0110-horror/0110-horror-q3.asp
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| | Eldritch Words Forum :: Genre |
| | There is another argument against the use of "fantastique" or "weird" to consider this type of litterature since gothic novels : it has much changed in its forms. | | | > "novelist", without any notion of genre (in the | | | And since Matthew Lewis's Monk, fantastique points out that there's no meaning. |
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http://www.eldritchdark.com/forum/read.php?1,1576,page=2
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| | Novel18c |
| | Hall, K. The Exalted Heroine and the Triumph of Order: Class, Women, and Religion in the English Novel, 1740-1800. | | | Living by the Pen: Women Writers in the 18th Century. | | | Unsex'd revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790's. |
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http://courses.wcupa.edu/wanko/Novel18c.htm
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| | Pen and Paper: "...handsome, clever, and rich..." |
| | One of our cats is named Jane Austen and I have a bumper sticker that reads "I'd rather be reading Jane Austen," so you can imagine how fond I am of her. | | | I delighted in finding that the site also makes reference to a Gothic novelist, Matthew Lewis (Monk) who's credited with being the last of the rationalist Gothic novelists. | | | Monk was suprisingly hypersexual--I was taken aback by many of its scenes--and graphically violent; it was a tasty little morsel (definitely not for children), but who doesn't enjoy the occasional guilty pleasure? |
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http://myfavoriteanathenaeum.blogspot.com/2005/05/handsome-clever-and-rich.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Monk Lewis: A critical biography |
| | Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818), the English novelist, playwright, poet, and composer, is best known for his Gothic novel "The Monk" (1796). | | | This is the first study to consider all of Lewis's works and their connections to his personal life. | | | Lewis is said to have inspired and influenced such diverse writers as Artaud, Coleridge, Dickens, Flaubert, and Scott. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802047491
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| | ISN News: The Zocalo Today, Babylon 5 News |
| | Tye Bourdoney (also a familiar name to ISN readers) - comic book artist | | | Matthew Lewis, Neville Longbottom from the Harry Potter movies. |
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| | About - Arts & Literature Search Results |
| | An index of Top Picks TopPicks for the Literature: Classic guide site. | | | While the spooky Gothic novel existed previous to this, Matthew Lewis' The Monk... | | | Harry Potter Los Angeles Fan Members meet the 2nd Saturday of every month at 12noon at the upstairs eating area above Farmers Market near The Grove. |
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http://about.com/arts/hubsearch.htm?terms=Matthew+Lewis&...&TopNode=2708
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| | Chapter Lewis <i>to</i> Liddon of L by Biographical Dictionary of English Literature |
| | Lewis, Sir George Cornewall (1806-1863).—Scholar and statesman, son of Sir Thomas F. Lewis, a Radnorshire baronet, was educated at Eton and Oxford He studied law, was called to the Bar in 1831, and entered Parliament in 1847, where his intellect and character soon gained him great influence. | | | The somewhat sceptical turn of his mind led him to sift evidence minutely, and the labour involved in his wide range of severe study and his public duties no doubt shortened his valuable life. | | | Though affected and extravagant in his manners, Lewis was not wanting in kindly and generous feelings, and in fact an illness contracted on a voyage to the West Indies to inquire into and remedy some grievances of the slaves on his estates there was the cause of his death. |
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http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/259/1255/23171/1.html
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| | glbtq >> about >> Editors and Contributors >> George E. Haggerty |
| | Thomas Gray, the best-loved English poet of the eighteenth century, wrote several poems that express the love he felt for other men. | | | The eighteenth-century novelist Sarah Scott challenges the sex-gender system of her society and claims narrative authority for women loving women. | | | Throughout his life, Horace Walpole was devoted to other men, and his exploration of dysfunctional families in The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother probably stems from his own experience with a destructive father. |
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http://www.glbtq.com/contributors/bio_38.html
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| | Landon, Letitia Elixabeth (1802-38) Poet Journalist and novelist. |
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| | Open Directory - Arts: Literature: World Literature: British: Gothic: Lewis, Matthew |
| | Lewis, Matthew - Short essay on the novelist, poet, and playwright. | | | Encyclopædia Britannica: Lewis, Matthew Gregory - Biographical entry from the 1911 edition. | | | Matilda - A look at the character Matilda in "The Monk." How her shifting image reflects the moral decline of the male protagonist Ambrosio. |
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http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/British/Gothic/Lewis,_Matthew
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| | The Gothic Literature Page: Resources |
| | Dedicated to William Beckford (1760-1844), the English novelist, bibliophile, traveler, collector, and builder. | | | A survey of Romantic poets regarding their acquaintance with Gothic literature, documenting this important aspect of Romantic influence and intertextuality with primary and secondary sources. | | | This study examines the much maligned the supernatural dramas of Matthew Gregory Lewis--most notably The Castle Spectre, Adelmorn, the Outlaw, and The Wood-Daemon within their web of social, cultural and historical contexts. |
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http://members.aol.com/franzpoet/gothicres.html
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| | To Make a Long Story Short: Gothic Fragments and the Gender Politics of Incompleteness - Questia Online Library |
| | Nevertheless, short Gothic fiction--both the Gothic fragment and the Gothic tale--was extremely popular during the last three decades of the eighteenth century. | | | The long length also allowed the novelist to create suspense through the artful interruption of, and digression from, the main story lines. | | | Eighteenth-century British Gothic romance seems an unlikely candidate for discussion in a journal that focuses on "short fiction." Today, most studies of Gothic fiction address the lengthy three-, four-, even five-volume novels by writers such as Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Sophia Lee, Regina Maria Roche, and Charlotte Smith. |
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http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5001525325
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| | Getting It Right/Bruccoli |
| | He was a social novelist whose work became social history, but he was not a documentary or reportorial realist. | | | The corrections were made in the fourth printing with Lewis | | | That Sinclair Lewis erred in the names of three fraternal organizations (Elks, Red Men, and Odd Fellows) in Babbitt is of biographical interest, but the errors are nonfunctional in the novel; the correct forms are necessary in a properly edited text. |
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http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/essays/right.html
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| | ipedia.com: Matthew Lewis Article |
| | There are several famous people with this name, including: Matthew Lewis, the novelist Matthew Lewis, the actor This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherw... | | | If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page. |
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http://www.ipedia.com/matthew_lewis.html
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| | JEWSWEEK - Meet the next great American novelist |
| | With his new novel, Chicken Dreaming Corn, Roy Hoffman's tearing down stereotypes with his homegrown brand of Southern Jewish lit, and his writing tells us a deeper story about both. | | | He comments regularly at his blog, Just Another Rant, and often speaks around the country. | | | JEWSWEEK - Meet the next great American novelist |
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http://www.jewsweek.com/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Article^l1437&enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enVersion=0&enZone=Stories&
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| | Science Fiction News of the Week |
| | The original movie tells the story of a novelist who has an uncanny knack for imagining horrific events before they happen. | | | The CBBC Newsround Web site reported that Matthew Lewis is expected again to play Neville Longbottom in the upcoming fourth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. | | | Movies has posted a seven-minute featurette with interviews and clips for the upcoming The Matrix Revolutions, which opens worldwide Nov. 5. |
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http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue340/news.html
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| | ABCalendar - May, 14 |
| | The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River. | | | In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new Constitution for the United States. |
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| | The Believer - In the Penthouse of the Ivory Tower |
| | The marketeers want to discredit professors by suggesting that their irrelevant and overwritten books would fail the laissez-faire test; I wanted to credit them with a kind of relevance, but the underlying assumption was the same: what you’re doing is useless in and of itself. | | | An example: Joe Schmoe is a car mechanic, a heterosexual, a libertarian, and a part-time novelist. |
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http://www.believermag.com/issues/july_2004/lewiskraus.php
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| | 1901 - Dame Barbara Cartland, romance novelist, step-grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales (d. |
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| | Blogcritics.org: Conservative Media (Surprise, Surprise) Trying To Discredit Plame |
| | They've said that senior White House officials Karl Rove and Lewis Libby merely repeated information from reporters, but as more leaks come from testimony given to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, that argument increasingly lacks credibility. | | | The story, from Hardball favorite Deborah Orin but based on information on Time magazine's web site, offers the following scandal: Plame gave $372 to America Coming Together, an "anti-Bush group," for two tickets to a concert starring Bruce Springsteen. | | | The latest salvo from the conservatives is a New York Post story that made the rounds this morning, and which no doubt you'll be hearing a lot about from talk radio today, and probably from at least one of Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Joe Scarborough, Tucker Carlson and Chris Matthews tonight. |
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/07/27/115716.php
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| | Pop Culture Gadabout |
| | Recently re-watched the first Scream on Starz, in fact, and found I enjoyed it almost as much as I had in the theater. | | | The movie has its clumsy moments (many of which connect to the lamentable performances of David Arquette and Matthew Lillard), but it's still an entertaining horror-comedy. | | | · The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) |
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http://oakhaus.blogspot.com/2005_04_01_oakhaus_archive.html
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