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Trophies of war--from helmets, bayonets, and other innocuous spoils to the grisly byproducts of dismemberment--have a long, if not proud, history.
Hello Andrew, The story about the Web confession was very disturbing, involving a particularly mad and grisly crime.
Harris' hits were (as TV movies say) "based on a true story"--like his grisly ballad of an orphan girl asking the telephone operator to be put through to her dead mother, "Hello, Central, Give Me Heaven."
People think I'm kidding when I say that my favorite film is The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), but I can't imagine how I'd have survived an especially grisly puberty without the comfort of watching Boris Karloff express his anguish to an uncomprehending world through a misshapen body and halting language.
Compare The Object of My Affection with that grisly sitcom tearjerker As Good as It Gets , in which James L. Brooks manages to generate an emotionally compelling movie out of a situation that has nothing-- nada --to do with any reality I know of.