"... THAT is the explanation." So explains the psychiatrist in the 1945 classic horror anthology Dead of Night , referring to the ventrioloquist played by Michael Redgrave in the film's most famous segment, "The Dummy." I watched that again tonight, after reading about the Vent Haven Museum of ventrioloquists' dummies, here in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/arts/design/22private.html?hp So do kids even know about dummies anymore, let alone know to be scared of them? When I... read more
