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(Undated)--A suspect of an ax attack in northern Minnesota reportedly seriously injured a K-9 dog. The Cass County Sheriffs Office was called over the weekend to Wilkinson Township south of

Causing a great deal of dismay To Satyajit Ray. That letter is reproduced in the book Travails with the Alien, which is a time machine into an epistolary world of ruled yellow notepads and formal letterheads. Even the envelopes tell stories. Stanley Kubrick’s letter came in an envelope with a 2001: A Space Odyssey seal. Aerogramme memories A few years ago, while emptying out my storage locker in the U.S., I found boxes of letters that friends and family had sent in the days before email. M...

is a movie for kids. More specifically, it’s a movie for making sure kids never look into a closet filled with stuffed animals or take out the trash without feeling like there’s potential for a glassy-eyed space monster to appear unexpectedly and scare them half to death. As it turns out, the lifetime of nightmares contained within the original film—already more than enough for the world’s children—could have been doubled if, as was planned at one point, we got a sequel called E.T. 2...