Her other films include "The Wicker Man" (1973); "The Asylum" (2000), a horror movie starring her daughter; "Minotaur" (2006); and "Sea of Dust" (2008).
It seems apt that Pitt's final credit, Sea of Dust – a tongue-in-cheek homage to Hammer and the Mario Bava films in which she starred alongside Tom Savini – was a tribute to the horror genre with which she was so closely associated.
Tennessee Williams said: "We are all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skin, for life!" I realise that this could apply as strongly to Vegas itself - a floating island in a sea of dust - as to any living person.
Aerosol particles, such as sea salt, dust and anthropogenic pollution, influence the optical properties of clouds and the tendency of a cloud to form precipitation through droplet collisions.
We drove most of the night, the convoy snaking for miles along the lonely bush road home, blinding headlights shining through the sea of dust as each vehicle tried to overtake the one ahead, an army crawling home bumper-to-bumper in defeat.
The other set of bins includes particles containing mixtures of organics, black carbon, sea salt, dust, and condensed sulfate.
Winds blowing across the exposed seabed produced dust storms that buffeted the region with a toxic dust contaminated with salt, fertilizer, and pesticides.
My favorite was the pan-seared sea scallops, dusted in Kona flour and served in a soy-ginger broth over spinach, bok choy and coconut-ginger rice.
Menu highlights include rice paper rolls with jumbo crab meat, baby arugula, avocado and crispy tofu served with a blackberry curry dipping sauce; and filet of sea bass, dusted with curry powder and braised in parsley apple chutney.
Where the Cookies strain was focused and direct, almost poking fun at my tongue and lips with a pin, the Gelato strain was full, round and creamy, as if it was touched with dollops of rich goat cheese and freshly churned, sea salt dusted butter.
