Word: antiheroics
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...hero is Harry Niles, a classic noir name if ever there was one, and Harry is an antihero par excellence. The son of American missionaries, he grew up on the streets of Tokyo and now runs a hip expatriate jazz bar there (think Rick's Cafe in Casablanca with calligraphy...
TRUE CRIME Even firefighters can be bad guys. Joseph Wambaugh's antihero is a respected California fire captain who becomes a prolific arsonist...
...counterintuitive choice to head STAR. After leaving college, he had shied away from News Corp., founding Rawkus, a record company that specialized in rap-metal bands a few years before Limp Bizkit made millions with the formula. He also had a brief dalliance with cartooning, producing a strip whose antihero "Albrecht the Hun" preferred literary pursuits to raping and pillaging. But James eventually set aside his own artistic impulses and joined the family fold. He first took over News Corp.'s small but troubled music division in 1996. Next, with investors clamoring for greater involvement with the Internet...
...Family," and more specifically against O'Connor's performance, was that people might enjoy it for the wrong reasons: bigots could use his most troglodytic insults, or sexists could call their wives "dingbats," and claim they were just quoting Archie. Worse, they argued, he made his working-class antihero empathetic and therefore, they argued, made his beliefs attractive. Wrong. Archie Bunker spoke to a whole country engaged in a second American civil war, fighting bitterly in their own living rooms with people they loved nonetheless. If he was too unreconstructed to admire, he was too real to dismiss...
DIED. FRANCIS YOHANNAN, 79, World War II bombardier and inspiration for the antihero Captain Yossarian in Joseph Heller's satiric novel Catch-22; in Spokane, Wash. Yohannan, who served with Heller in Corsica, was not a rebel; in the Air Force, he earned a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Bronze Star...