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Horror-filled Halloween reads

Books can be even scarier than movies. 4D

Co-star honors Perry’s memory

Doherty joins ‘Riverside’ in tribute episode. 2D

Fallon finishes book family

“This Is Baby” appeals to kids, parents. 3D

IN LIFE

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LIFELINE

1. Bloody Genius
   John Sandford


2. Blowout
   Rachel Maddow


3. Where the Crawdads Sing
   Delia Owens


4. The Institute
   Stephen King


5. The Water Dancer
   Ta-Nehisi Coates

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At Monday’s world premiere of Net-
flix’s “El Camino: A Breaking Bad
Movie” in Los Angeles, star Aaron
Paul reunited with his “Breaking Bad”
co-star, Bryan Cranston. The two
posed, with Cranston wrapping his
hand around Paul’s shoulder. Though
the TV series ended with Walter
White’s death, fans are wondering if
Cranston’s character will make a cam-
eo in the Paul-led reboot movie avail-
able for streaming on Oct. 11.

RODIN ECKENROTH/FILMMAGIC

CAUGHT IN THE ACT
REUNION ... AND PREVIEW?

When I say, ‘Be kind to one an-
other,’ I don’t mean only the
people that think the same way that
you do. I mean be kind to everyone.
Doesn’t matter.” – Ellen DeGeneres
said Tuesday on her daytime talk
show, responding to criticism over
sitting next to George W. Bush at
Sunday’s face-off between the Dallas
Cowboys and Green Bay Packers.

TIM HEITMAN / USA TODAY SPORTS

THEY SAID WHAT?
THE STARS’ BEST QUOTES

NEW YORK – Bowl cuts, like great-

ness, can be thrust upon you.

Take it from Timothee Chalamet,

who was forced to shear his famously

luscious locks to play young Henry V in

Netflix’s “The King” (in theaters Friday

in New York and Los Angeles, expand-

ing nationwide throughout October

before streaming Nov. 1), a somber

mashup of William Shakespeare’s

plays about the 15th-century English

monarch.

“We put a breakfast bowl on his

head and just went for it,” jokes co-star

Joel Edgerton, who co-wrote the film

with director David Michod and

worked the severe cut into the script

after researching paintings of the real-

life Henry.

Seeing himself for the first time, “I

was like, ‘Does this really look that

bad?’” Chalamet says with a grin, his

mop of curls now blessedly restored.

Eventually, “I realized what a burden I

put on myself by having these window

blinders, and it was very freeing.”

“The character was ... part of my imagination for ... 20 years,” says Joel Edger-

ton, left, of Henry V, played by Timothee Chalamet.ROBERT DEUTSCH/USA TODAY

Chalamet says

regal bowl cut

was ‘freeing’

Netflix’s production of

“The King” drops Friday

Patrick Ryan

USA TODAY

King Henry V is played by Timothee

Chalamet in Netflix’s “The King,”

which opens Friday. NETFLIX

See HAIRCUT, Page 5D

MOVIES

“Parasite”sounds like an unnerving

horror movie about unwanted invad-

ers, but that’s just one aspect that

completely works in this socially con-

scious delight.

One of the most well-rounded

movies you’ll see this year, the South

Korean film-fest favorite(eeeg; rat-

ed R; in theaters Friday in New York

and Los Angeles, expanding through-

out October) also balances dark com-

edy, biting social satire, human drama

and thriller twistiness for a refreshing

effort that’s familiar enough in its

themes to be extraordinarily inviting.

The latest excellent effort for writer/di-

rector Bong Joon-ho (“The Host,” “Ok-

ja”) is a more entertaining version of

“Roma,” an Oscar-ready, slice-of-life

foreign film that challenges its audi-

ence to look inward.

Mashing up a variety of genres,

“Parasite” is at its heart a morality tale

centering on two disparate families:

the poor Kims and the well-to-do

Parks. With the shiftless Ki-taek (Song

Kang-ho) as their patriarch, the unem-

ployed Kim clan live in squalor: Their

apartment is a dingy, claustrophobic

basement dwelling (with the most in-

teresting view being a frequently uri-

nating vagrant); family members steal

Wi-Fi from the coffee shop, and they

fold pizza boxes as their main source of

income.

While poor, they also prove to be a

bunch of desperate, scheming grifters

when the chance arises. Siblings Ki-

woo (Choi Woo-shik) and Ki-jung

(Park So-dam) can’t pass university

entrance exams, but they get an A-plus

in charisma: With fake diploma in

hand, Ki-woo is recommended by a

friend to the wealthy Parks as an Eng-

MOVIE REVIEW

Hye-jin Jang, left, and Woo-shik Choi

play teenagers trying to find Wi-Fi in

the bathroom in “Parasite.”NEON

Dark

comedy

‘Parasite’

is brilliant

See PARASITE, Page 6D

Brian Truitt

Columnist

USA TODAY