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...child or adult you have never read a comic or even any kind of book like "Marmalade Boy." It will be new to you not because it stars a spindly, ordinary, modern-day 16-year-old high-school girl, or because the story involves no adventures more outrageous than light, comedic romance (both of which are sadly unusual in American comicbooks, but not unheard of.) The novelty comes from reading it "backwards." The L.A.-based Tokyopop has begun publishing a whole series of pocket-sized paperbacks that reprint Japanese comicbooks, called "manga," the way they originally appeared, reading right...
Television wakes me up, keeps me company while I eat and tucks me in at night, and, thanks to Cinemax, I sometimes take it as a lover. The average American adult leads the world in television viewing, clocking four hours a day. While you're reading your precious newsmagazine, I'm doing my patriotic duty making sure the second-place Greeks don't pass...
Women are always in danger in modern movies--in danger of being left out of them. In teen-boy farces, women are usually just a priapic prop. In adult action pictures they may be no more than a trophy, a pawn or a poignant memory. So the very notion that women are not on the margins but at the center of medium-budget, mass-appeal films is refreshing...
That tone may suit an America itching for quick solutions to thorny global issues. But it doesn't make for a truly adult cinema about complex men and women. And for that, there's no simple recipe...
...people insist on making an absurd connection between celibacy and pedophilia [RELIGION, April 1]? These priests do not harm children because priests cannot marry but because they are deviants. If they had just wanted to find sexual pleasure, they could have found willing adult female partners. These men preyed on children, the most naive of their community. Jesus said it would be better to be drowned in the sea than to lead a child into sin. Let these men drown in the sea of prison. TONY LEE LYNN Ida, Mich...