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COVER STORY > DARK SHADOWS<br />
DANGEROUS<br />
BEAUTY<br />
MICHELLE<br />
PFEIFFER<br />
GETS GOTHIC<br />
“Sickos never scare me—at least they’re<br />
I’M READY<br />
FOR MY<br />
CLOSE-UP, MR.<br />
BURTON<br />
committed,” purred Michelle Pfeiffer<br />
as Catwoman in 1992’s Batman Returns.<br />
She meant it: after Pfeiffer hung<br />
up the whip, she continued to seek out<br />
quirky, complicated and sometimes<br />
sinister roles, playing everything from<br />
a perfectly coiffed racist in Hairspray<br />
to a deadly poisoner in White Oleander.<br />
Despite breaking the record for<br />
the number of times she’s been awarded<br />
People’s Most Beautiful list (six times in<br />
the ’90s alone,) Pfeiffer made a point of<br />
only choosing parts where she could be<br />
more than a pretty face. And exactly 20<br />
years after she ran roughshod over Bruce<br />
Wayne, Pfeiffer has partnered back up<br />
with Tim Burton for the goofily goth<br />
Dark Shadows, in which she holds court<br />
as grande dame Elizabeth Collins Stoddard.<br />
Was it just like slipping back into<br />
old times? Says Pfeiffer: it was better.<br />
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