Burtonmania!

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When you're hot, you're hot, and Tim Burton is pretty damned hot. With his $875 million-grossing Alice in Wonderland not too far in the background, the Museum of Modern Art announced today that its just-closed Burton exhibition was MoMA's third-biggest ever, with 810,500 visitors in five months -- a figure trailing only retrospectives of Picasso and Matisse. And you can't even attribute it to 3-D ticket inflation! Amazing. [NYT]