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Life tech at ACORD LOMA: dead man walking? The conference trend clearly was toward property-casualty.(TECH TALK)(Column)

LONG BEFORE "THE SIXTH SENSE" made the phrase "I see dead people" part of the popular lexicon, Hollywood foisted a variety of deceased menaces--zombies, vampires, revivified cadavers (or parts thereof), ghosts, mummies, scary voices from the beyond--upon an apparently all-too-willing movie-going public.

Have you noticed, though, that in most cases when it comes to plain old dead people who have yet to step onto the celestial elevator, we in the audience can see and hear them, but those in the film who are alive usually can't? Remember how the dead Patrick Swayze couldn't really communicate with his still-living love interest Demi Moore in "Ghost," at least until the ...

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