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...television. Tardi, like Crumb, became a major comix creator during the 1970s, though unlike Crumb, he didn't have to go underground to do it. Art Spiegelman's forward to the book describes Tardi as "one of the single most influential comix artists to come out of the French adult comics revolution of the 70's." In spite of this he has gotten scant attention in the U.S., with just a few of his many books getting translated. Though it originally appeared in the mid-80s, this first of five Tardi/Malet books is the only one to have yet appeared...
...French New Wave did for film: taking the trappings of American pulp fiction and retooling them with a cool, European update. Why the French take seriously what we throw away - detective pictures and comix among other things - remains anybody's guess. Just be glad that they do. Entertaining, adult pulp comix have become all too scarce...
...Daldry.) The movie stars Albert Finney as a man on his deathbed who recalls his younger self, played by Ewan McGregor, as a force of indefatigable buoyancy; Finney's son, played by Billy Crudup, believes his father is just an indefatigable liar. Big Fish is rooted in a conflicted adult world, and for the first time in a Tim Burton film, it is the parent--not the child--who is whimsical and misunderstood...
Ultimately, then, gay marriage is not an issue of Massachusetts law, but of the fundamental freedoms enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. And ultimately the federal government must step into its essential role as guarantor of those freedoms to unambiguously recognize the right of adult citizens across America to wed one another, no matter their sex. But with today’s narrow-minded White House, where President Bush takes as gospel that “marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman” and has established a holiday to bigotry in October?...
...pipeline vicinity is one-fourth the national average, they say, and such social indicators as school attendance and employment have gone up. Total itself is facing lawsuits in France and Belgium over its role in the project. It says everyone employed on the project was a paid, voluntary adult with a written contract who underwent a physical exam and received safety training. In its annual report, Unocal noted: "If there were any possibility that our project was connected with human-rights abuses, this would be absolutely unacceptable to us." But Time has obtained unsealed court documents that challenge the company...