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Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber
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"Sweeney Todd, The Barber" is a song that assumes its audience knows the stage version and claims that such a character in real life was even more remarkable, yet it contains most of the story portrayed in the theater and cinema. Stanley Holloway, who recorded it in 1956, attributed it to R. P. Weston, a song writer active from 1906 to 1934.
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Based on the hit Broadway musical which tells the infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. more
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With his coal-eyed stare and Susan Sontag mane of white-streaked hair, Todd takes up residence in his old haunts, above the shop run by the similarly gothic Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter). Known, as she sings, for making "The Worst Pies in London", she has flukily kept his edgy implements preserved. Todd's new landlady has no qualms about joining in his lethal scheme, which gets sent off in the right vein after a duel with phony barber Adolfo Pirelli (Sacha Baron Cohen, who injects the film with its broadest humour).
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On Wednesday night, Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider -- all of DreamWorks -- host a "Sweeney Todd" premiere on the Paramount lot. Oh, to be a fly on that barbershop wall!
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The Demon Barber, Todd, was jailed even though he was innocent. When he is let out, he vows his revenge on the entire town with the help of Mrs. Lovett and her meat pies.
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