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...producer Marc Platt (Legally Blonde). "You know how they're going to end. Two people are going to wind up together, so you have to make sure that the journey is really interesting." And unlike the golden age of romantic comedies, when Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy were trading brilliant barbs, today most of the best writers of the genre are busy working on TV shows like Friends, Sex and the City and Will & Grace. And today's male stars know they can make far more money in action flicks than in flirting pics. How desperate are studios for romantic...
...expressions of the early Disney features. Nor does it go for the slam-bang effects of Shrek and the other canny computerized cartoons that have dominated the box office. Instead, Miyazaki goes for--and gets--the big picture, the grand emotion, one spectacular set piece stacked on another in brilliant colors and design. There's not a more impressive sequence in recent movies than the arrival at the bathhouse of a huge, amorphous river-god, encased in centuries' worth of stink and sludge, whom Chihiro has the daunting task of giving a sturdy wash and scrub. It's a visual...
...second novel--Buddhism, Jewish mysticism, the Hollywood studio system--one that she presumably did not have to research was the bug-light allure of celebrity. In 2000, at age 24, she became deservedly famous for White Teeth, a sprawling, erudite comedy about culture clash and bioengineering in postcolonial Britain. Brilliant, young and beautiful, she became a favorite of the British media, which followed her love life and hairstyle changes with a fervor Americans reserve for cast members of Friends...
...those who can’t stop watching Kenneth Lonergan’s brilliant film You Can Count on Me, head to the Ex Dec. 5-7 for Lonergan’s Waverly Gallery. Director Rebecca Kastleman ’05 will transform the Ex into a site of intimate family life in this delicate and personal play about one man’s reconstruction of his past and his struggles with identity. Centered around the man’s grandmother’s final days in her East Village art gallery, Waverly is a refreshingly honest and complex piece...
...Orchid," (Sparkplug Comic Books; $8; 116pp.) contains seven black and white adaptations of Victorian-era short stories, all of which involve shocking apparitions. It's a brilliant conceit by editors Ben Catmull and Dylan Williams. The most amusing of these is "Tobermory," adapted by Gabrielle Bell from a story by H.H. Munro, about a housecat who, upon being taught to speak, reveals its owner's most embarrassing secrets. Fantastic animals become a kind of sub-theme, as in David Lasky's adaptation of E.A. Poe's "The Raven." Testing the definition of a comic, instead of containing distinct images...