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Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 period horror film directed by Tim Burton, interpreting the legend of The Headless Horseman and based loosely around the Washington Irving story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The third film collaboration between Johnny Depp and Burton, the film also features Christina Ricci, Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson, Casper Van Dien, Jeffrey Jones, Ian McDiarmid, Michael Gough, Richard Griffiths and Christopher Walken. The story centers on police constable Ichabod Crane sent from New York City to investigate a series of murders in the village Sleepy Hollow by a mysterious...
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The story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lanky schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, only daughter of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who lost his head to a cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War, and who...
Severe thunderstorms cut a swath of destruction through central and eastern New Hampshire today, prompting reports of collapsed buildings and at least two possible funnel clouds or tornadoes.
A few days ago, Brentwood resident Luke Kearney and his wife Laura bought a couple of tickets to see the latest Batman thriller, "The Dark Knight," and like the rest of the audience, they thrilled to both the ...
Australian actress Mia Wasikowska reportedly is in final negotiations to play the title character in Tim Burton's big-screen version of Alice in Wonderland.
Hitachi America, Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. today announced that Jennifer Lopez of Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., has been named the Tsuneo Tanaka Scholarship winner for 2008.