Word: antiheroism
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...ROCKFORD FILES SEASON 1 There have been tougher, more polished private eyes on TV than Jim Rockford (James Garner) but none as cool. Rockford was a classic '70s outlaw antihero: a roguish, check-bouncing ex-con (wrongly convicted) who lived in a trailer and was nearly as great a pain to the cops as to the crooks he nabbed. The cases and car chases were not anything special; Rockford's raffish sense of humor and ability to fast-talk his way out of any jam were. Garner's insouciance bursts off the screen like a Pontiac Firebird flying...
...mystery of the film—beyond how the director failed to incite a sexual spark between the gorgeous leads—is why Robert “The RZA/Ruler Zig-Zag-Zig Allah/ Rzarector Prince Rakeem/” Diggs was cast as its moral center and tragic antihero. The hip-hop MC, best known for his work in the East Coast hardcore crew the Wu-Tang Clan, has also composed film soundtracks, including those of both “Kill Bill”’s and “Blade: Trinity.” While...
...Rafael Reig to be translated into English (smoothly, by Paul Hammond). A finalist for the 2003 Premio Fundación Lara, Spain's top literary prize, the book has become a cult classic. Carlos Clot, said El País, Spain's largest newspaper, is "the new Spanish antihero." If so, then Reig, 42, is the new antihero of Spanish letters. In five imaginative novels, he has subverted language, shuffled genres and generally had mucho fun - as in his 1992 "autobiography" of Marilyn Monroe. A mustachioed Asturias-born academic, he studied philosophy in Madrid and New York City and taught...
...extraordinarily sympathetic women -- a pleasant fate but an improbable one. This is particularly disappointing in Being Invisible, if only because the book raises higher expectations than the straightforwardly commercial Memoirs. Berger has qualities that Saint as yet lacks, including a distinctive prose style and a disciplined, selective eye. His antihero Wagner, seeking somebody else's faith to validate his existence, at least conveys a sense that something more is at stake than a big movie sale. Saint's Halloway remains a see-through personality, dismissed even by his yuppie former friends as "never much on belief of any sort." With...
What is a novelist to do with an antihero who has no need of external reality except for an occasional sniff? Süskind invents several short-lived missions for Jean-Baptiste. The first, to become the "greatest perfumer of all time," is child's play. Wheedling an apprenticeship with the renowned but fading establishment of Giuseppe Baldini, Grenouille easily makes his master the toast of Paris and the rest of the civilized world. Next, he spends seven years on an isolated mountain, safe from the smells of humanity and lolling in olfactory memories. Finally, he embarks on a quest...