The hero of Omaha Perez’s black-and-white graphic novel piss-take on the world’s greatest detective, Holmes (AiT/Planet Lar), is far removed from the familiar deerstalker capped brainiac we’re accustomed to seeing. This Sherlock Holmes is a half-crazed dope fiend more concerned with looking good in the press than in actually solving the case. Prone to paranoid [...]
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May
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10
Jan
You could almost suppose that Germany has no past before 1933, so massively does the Third Reich overwhelm popular thought and historical writing about the country. But it does, and one of the most interesting periods is the one immediately preceding the Nazis %26mdash; the precarious attempt at democracy known as the Weimar Republic.
Its [...]
10
Jan
Bette Davis’ life was one of the major train wrecks in Hollywood history, and it was her hand that was on the throttle. Married four times and divorced three (one died); multiple love affairs; at least three abortions; battles royal with producers, directors and anyone else in authority; fragile relationships with her three children %26mdash; [...]
10
Jan
It’s a crackpot business that sets out to manufacture a product it can’t even
define, but that was old Hollywood. Thousands of people in the movie business
made a Wizard-of-Oz living, working hidden levers to present an awe-inspiring
display on theatre screens: Movie Stars! Hollywood made ‘em and sold ‘em daily,
gamely producing a product for which its creators [...]
19
Dec
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieLast Christmas I was in my ancestral hometown, Abba in Nigeria, and over two dry harmattan evenings I sat out on the veranda and read Linus Ogbuji’s memoir Seeing the World in Black and White (Africa Research and Publications), which charts his early idyllic years in Nigeria, university education in Egypt and emigration [...]
17
Dec
Unless you’re closest to Ted “Unabomber” Kaczynski or the Amish, DVDs remain the all-time safest bet for Christmas presents.
In most other homes, the players are nearly as ubiquitous as indoor plumbing, and the choices are as tightwad or extravagant as you feel your victim %26#8212; that is, recipient %26#8212; deserves. As far as variety, here [...]
12
Dec
Ernest Lehman, the screenwriter whose adaptations of such high-profile Broadway productions as West Side Story and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf dominated movie screens during the 1960s, has died.
Lehman, who was 89, died on Saturday at UCLA Medical Centre in California after a lengthy illness.
Lehman received six Academy Award nominations - four for his screenplays [...]
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