Tim Burton's Weenie, er, Frankenweenie
- By Melissa Wilson
- Published 10/1/2007
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Tim Burton is revisiting his past once he's done with Victorian serial killers. Fresh off "Sweeney Todd," Burton is tunring his eyes back towards his first project, a movie about a boy and his dog called "Frankenweenie." Now, take this all with a salt grain the size of Topeka: the word comes from an
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