Apparently I acted too hastily. Forty-five years later, comic books are the common currency of contemporary Hollywood.
Today’s mass moviegoers might not read novels or go to Broadway plays. But they sure know Superman, Spider-Man, Batman and, now, Iron Man.
This should be the point where your grumpy critic goes on a rant against cultural trash and [...]
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Jan
In %26#8220;Leatherheads,%26#8221; a romantic comedy he has directed and appears in (opening in April), he is a 1920s professional football player who competes with a younger star player (John Krasinski) for the love of a suspicious journalist (Ren%26#233;e Zellweger). He has entered the Depression %26#8217;30s in the Coen brothers%26#8217; %26#8220;O Brother, Where Art Thou?,%26#8221; [...]
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Jan
Unlike many if not most Nobel laureates in literature, J.M. Coetzee seldom disappoints. A South African by birth, he now lives in Australia, having done time in the U.K and in Chicago, but he slips in and out of cultures and languages with an ease that’s enviable, and his books of fiction and memoir come [...]
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