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Happy Halloween!!!

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Well, another year another All Hallows Eve.  I don't know what it is about October and this night, but it always...to paraphrase a much better writer, "thrills me, fills me with fantastic terrors never felt before."  I don't know why, but I always get an adrenaline rush on Halloween Night and I think this burst is going to be just the thing I need to get me through to Friday.  I think the weight of the world is slowly crushing me, but hey...that's life right?  I may also have been revitalized by yesterday's unexpected snow day (yeah, a snow day before Halloween...thanks Sandy...too bad you had to destroy a good deal of the East coast to do it) and therefore have my fur up due to that.  It's hard to say really, but either way it is Halloween and I am pumped up.  I suppose its nice to have a return to my old excited self after a couple of weeks of feeling simply exhausted, and since I'm on the subjects of 'returns' I thought I might revisit the f

A Singing Plant, A Daring Hero, A Sweet Girl, A Demented Dentist....

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Name a classic film musical-comedy-tragedy...no that's ok...I'll wait...what?  You can't think of any?  You're right I suppose...it does seem like something of an oxymoron to even suggest that there are such animals.  Even ones that you think might straddle the line really fall to one side or the other.  The Rocky Horror Picture Show is most certainly more comedy in the end than tragedy (though some might argue that it's ambiguous ending is somewhat tragic) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is clearly more tragic than comic in it's execution, no matter how much we may giggle at moments like A Little Priest and By the Sea.  However, I do not doubt the intelligence of my readers and I know you already are assuming I'm building to something.  "What is this new comic-tragedy set to song," you ask?  Well, there-in lies my surprise...it has indeed been made, but it was made 26 years ago.  WHAT????  Certainly you have heard of Frank Oz&#