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...Their complaints are unlikely to dim the movie's prospects. The reviews were similarly scathing back in 1998 for the first Asterix film - Asterix and Obelix versus Caesar, which sold 25 million tickets, 15 million of them overseas, and only slightly better for 2002's Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, which did almost as well. Asterix has a massive fan base to draw upon: the comic books have sold 330 million copies in over 100 languages. While France likes to boast of its high-brow credentials, Asterix books easily outsell those of worthy rivals Proust, Sartre and Balzac...
...latest movie rekindles Asterix's eternal battle against Julius Caesar, again feeding on France's sense of cultural independence. Ironically, Asterix himself has become a new empire, and one that easily rivals ancient Rome. He leaves nothing unbeaten but the hegemons of Hollywood...
...Knievel Jr., was best known, and loved, for his crashes. After a number of successful jumps - over cars, trucks, live animals - Knievel shot to national fame after ABC Wide World of Sports aired footage of him spectacularly crashing, and crushing his pelvis, while trying to clear the fountains at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas...
...ruling cliché in writing about crime bosses - "the gangster as tragic hero" - was coined in 1948 by Robert Warshow, an extremely intelligent cultural critic, whose premature passing in 1955 robbed us of an invaluable voice. Warshow held that the classic movie mobsters (Little Caesar, The Public Enemy) were, in their essence, classic Americans forced by their status as the sons of immigrants to seek success and status outside the law, even though their style and motives were not so very different from the robber barons who found their riches in more respectable industries. The difference between the gangsters...
...than a candidate who gets a $400 haircut is a candidate who doesn't require one at all. Whether or not they realize it, voters think of great leaders as people with haircuts, and really great leaders as people with haircuts named for them. George Clooney once wore a Caesar. It is unlikely that he will ever ask his stylist for a Stevenson...