Word: blokes
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Peter Carey?author of the novel Oscar and Lucinda, two-time winner of the Booker Prize, all-around intelligent bloke?has lots of thoughtful ideas about modern Japanese culture, almost all of which, he comes to discover, are wrong. He's wrong about the symbolism of his son's favorite anim? series, Mobile Suit Gundam. He's wrong about the artistic motivation behind Japanese sword-making. And he's wrong about the otaku, the ultra-obsessive Japanese fans of everything from manga to pop idols, who turn out to have more dimensions than Carey, an Australian living in New York...
...trendy CGI thrillers, doomed to bolster the old joke that "the black guy always dies first." And there are comedians, who anchor movies destined mostly for black audiences. Then there's Don Cheadle. He plays the guy, the seemingly ordinary guy, who turns out to be the most colorful bloke in the bunch. "For the most part, character roles are more interesting," Cheadle says. "And more mine." Cheadle, 40, doesn't have Washington's looks. His small, lithe body is not built for Smith-like action heroism. A Cheadle character doesn't rely on swagger; he is the yeoman worker...
...very tall and lean, and he wore sandals and flowing clothes. I actually think they thought he was J.C. himself." Arriving unannounced in the roadhouse one day, having already driven out to the lake, Gormley had "burned himself a beauty," recalls Earnshaw. "He's a very down-to-earth bloke - and a bit strange, like all artists are. He couldn't be him and not be a bit different from everybody else, could he? That angel he's got in England - that's just mind-boggling, the size of that goddamn thing." In 1995, the Turner Prize?winning artist erected...
...working class. I'm just a young bloke who lives in a normal world...
...sons and daughters of rich business people mix with sons and daughters of the people on the local estate, and they all spend most of their teens smoking weed and trying to find love or sex." He adds simply: "I'm not working class. I'm just a young bloke who lives in a normal world." He sees none of this as contradiction. "I've got nothing in common with Snoop Doggy Dog but he portrays a really exciting life," Skinner argues. "Even though you don't identify with him you find it fascinating." Unlike Snoop's work, A Grand...