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Eddie Campbell's new book, "Alec: How to be an Artist," ($13.95, 128pp.) should not be confused with books like Lee & Buscema's "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way," or Will Eisner's "Graphic Storytelling." Consider the cover: a man sits with his head in his hand, thinking. This book means to be part memoir, part essay on the nature of being a capitol-A Artist, and part history of Campbell's chosen art form...
...Campbell, born in Scotland, lately transplanted to Australia, earned his reputation among the comixcenti in the late 1980s for his semi-autobiographical works (collected last year as "Alec: The King Canute Crowd"). His mainstream success came when he drew "From Hell," the twelve part Jack-the-Ripper series by "superstar" comix-writer Alan Moore, the movie of which stars Johnny Depp and has a September release date...
...release of "Pearl Harbor," I (like most other Americans blessed with the gift of sight) have been bombarded by scenes from the movie. The trailer (which I suspect is much better than the movie itself) showcases a triumphant Cuba Gooding, Jr., an anguished Kate Beckinsale and a constipated-looking Alec Baldwin. And then there?s Ben, who manages, despite what I?m sure is a very simple script, to look both bemused and lost in every frame he inhabits...
...completely CGi film based on the popular computer game series. Features the voices of Alec Baldwin, Ming-na, James Woods and Donald Sutherland...
...daughter con team might seem like a wickedly creative path to vengeance, but the film's premise is undercut both by the omnipresence of Love's breasts which flounce around in every scene as implied compensation for her poor thespian skills (and the fact that she just started dating Alec Baldwin makes us question her doe-eyed ingénue act) and the fact that the movie never shocks us with sinister nastiness. Girls marrying rich husbands and draining their bank accounts-Anna Nicole Smith gave us a far more entertaining version of the story without making...