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TALKING PICTURES: HEAD GAMES

By | May 2003

Writer David Templeton takes interesting people to interesting movies in his ongoing quest for the ultimate post-film conversation. This week, corpse chronicler Mary Roach dissects the cadaver-packed fright flick “Identity…”

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TALKING PICTURES: HEAD GAMES

“Bodies. Dead bodies! Oh my god!” cries author Mary Roach, standing atop a short, grassy knob of lawn around which two dozen human shapes (most of them...

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