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[gotmilk]

"Why I watch [American Chopper] is a mystery."

but then,
If life was not a mystery,
imagine,
a simpleton life full of un-simonpures,
imagine
Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie: The Simple Life

"So true about the Dad...
He is this big old tough guy [and] such a softie at heart!
Did you see the episode when he started to cry?
It made me cry..."

Yes,
Also I to cry,
and to know why,
will keep the cry,
never to die.

But,
To shed a tear,
for one you know not dear,
it was not in any act of Shakespeare,
but here, many a tears have appeared.
"... the Skeksis ritual master buries his dagger deep
into Kira's back after she refuses to give the shard,
instead throwing it to Jen who was sitting atop the Crystal.
Kira dies within seconds, to the Skeksis' delight."

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - Act V. Scene I. A Churchyard.
Enter two Clowns, with spades and mattock...
Enter HAMLET and HORATIO at a distance...
First Clo. [Throws up a skull. ]
Ham. That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once;
First Clo. [Throws up another skull.]
Ham. There's another;
why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?
Where be his quiddities now, his quillets [his] tricks?
Ham. [Takes the skull.] Alas! poor Troy of Houston, I knew him...

The Dark Crystal
... immerses the viewer in a deeply mythic fantasy world.
... the Pure Crystal was shattered, dividing the world
... the decadent, villainous Skeksis
... the peaceful, contemplative Mystics.
The crystal was reassembled, but one shard was lost.
The result was the Dark Crystal [that] empowers
the tyrannical rule of the Skeksis.
An ancient prophecy states that if the crystal is to be healed
and the Skeksis overthrown, it will be done by a member
of the race of Gelflings.
For 1,000 years, the Skeksis have ruthlessly hunted
and destroyed the Gelflings. But one orphaned Gelfling,
young Jen, has been taken in and protected by the Mystics.
... the three suns are coming into conjunction once again,
and the crystal must be healed now, or else it never will be.
Jen must leave the [Mystics] across a bizarre world,
populated by creatures beyond even his expectations.
With the help of Aughra the seer, he recovers the shard
and heads for the Dark Crystal Castle. He also discovers
[a] female Gelfling named Kira, who joins his quest...
[the] world outside the Mystics' valley is a dangerous place.
[and] Garthim shock troops dog his every move...
[parties] with a village of Podlings [design] based on [potato]
plus discover a useful difference between boys and girls.
...
The Dark Crystal's [cousin] is the computer-animated
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
The Dark Crystal was made without computers, in 1982,
[by] craftsmen, puppeteers, acrobats, dancers and artists
who labored five years under the guidance of Jim Henson.

The Dark Crystal is the late Henson's masterpiece.
And, since Henson was essentially a visual artist,
The Dark Crystal is at heart a feat of visual creation.
[creatures] are like nothing seen before...

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