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“Looker” (1981)

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Famous plas­tic sur­geon Lar­ry Roberts (Albert Finney) is under sus­pi­cion of mur­der when sev­er­al of his clients, all beau­ti­ful mod­els, start turn­ing up dead, and incrim­i­nat­ing evi­dence is found at the scene. The strange part, is that his clients were already quite beau­ti­ful but want­ed very minor but very spe­cif­ic adjust­ments made. Now, only one of these clients, CIndy Fair­mont (Susan Dey), is still alive and they come togeth­er to solve the mystery.

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“X‑Men: First Class”

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In a sum­mer where comics-based movies are com­ing out almost every cou­ple of weeks, its takes a lot to stand out. But could a movie build­ing on the rep­u­ta­tion of a movie series, act­ing as a pre­quel to them, com­pete with the rest of the comics movies?

Yes, I believe it does.

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“Emily and the Werewolf” by Herbie Brennan

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Is Emi­ly’s neigh­bor Farmer Osboro real­ly a werewolf?

Well, Emi­ly cer­tain­ly thinks he is, the way his face turns hairy and his teeth turn into fangs and his hands become claws and his eyes get red, but no one else does, and she’s cer­tain that he knows that she knows his secret. So what is a young girl sup­posed to do to defend herself?

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Joan Brandon

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Biog­ra­phy: Pat Collins was cer­tain­ly not the first female stage hyp­no­tist. There were many oth­ers, but most have been forgotten

In the decade before Pat Collins there was a female stage hyp­no­tist named Joan Bran­don. In her books, she describes her­self as a third-gen­er­a­tion hyp­no­tist, although it is prob­a­bly more pre­cise to say she was a three-gen­er­a­tion stage magi­cian who was also a stage hyp­no­tist. (Accord­ing to her books, her father was also a stage hyp­no­tist but he is nev­er iden­ti­fied, so that is dif­fi­cult to ver­i­fy.) About the only rea­son she is remem­bered now is that she is prob­a­bly the first to write and pub­lish a num­ber of books on hyp­no­sis (which are list­ed below.)

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