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...manage watchable performances. Chin's gruff, soulful Chu is a match for Tong Tong, and Leung earns kudos as the least annoying fat kid in recent Chinese cinema. But Ho's Ming does little more than sweat. Wong's manic energy nicely counters the Chus' torpor, but his strangled-cat tone deserves an even worse punishment than the film finally delivers...
...this is a Crumb comic, a big-legged, big-chested Amazon soon puts him out of sorts, getting him in trouble with an even more diminutive, backwards-baseball-capped, trash-talking "gangsta'" named "Fishlips." Every era has received a similar razzing at the hands of Mr. Crumb. Fritz the Cat, happy-go-lucky and free lovin' until getting offed by his crazy ostrich girlfriend, became iconic of the sixties and seventies. The new volume of "Complete Crumb," which covers his work from the mid-1980s, includes strips with Mode O'Day, an archetype of that era's material-obsessed superficiality...
...Mystic Funnies" #3 ends with the kind of story that made Crumb famous - the like of which he hasn't touched in years - dirty, funny animals. This "Fritz the Cat" style combines Crumb's two biggest comic influences: the anarchic early issues of "Mad" magazine and the simplicity of the Donald Duck comics. This one stars "Super Duck, The Cockeyed Wonder." Uwanna, "Super Duck's" girlfriend, gets tired of him falling asleep on the couch after making him dinner. So Supes orders some special pills from the back of the "Beat Off" magazine his nephew Fauntleroy gets caught reading...
...Hunter ballad "I Almost Lost My Mind." Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" was, as they say, "inspired by" Gordon Jenkins's "Crescent City Blues"; in the late '60s, the courts ruled that a better word would be "swiped," and Cash had to pay up. Rufus Thomas's "Bear Cat (The Answer to Hound Dog)," whose composition was credited to one Sam Phillips, was so direct a copy of the Leiber-Stoller hit that Sun had two pay Lion Records two cents a copy. (All this and much more itemized in Colin Escott and Martin Hawkins' book "Good Rockin' Tonight...
...Birds are only the most prominent creatures nesting in this preserve. Native species include monitor lizards, mongooses, barking deer and goat antelope. Dolphins are sometimes spotted along the rugged coast, and there have been sightings of rare species like the small leopard cat, colorful purple heron and several types of eagles (white-bellied, spotted and imperial). One species surprisingly not seen in great numbers, though, is the human one. Only a few thousand visitors drop into the park in an average month, leaving much of Khao Sam Roi Yot in a state of splendid wilderness...