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DIED. BOB KANE, 83, creator of the comic-book icon Batman; in Los Angeles. Kane brought the character to life in 1939, inspired by the masked hero Zorro, a silent movie called The Bat and a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's batlike flying machine. The strength and creativity Kane bestowed on his superhero allowed Batman to leap from comics to a 1960s TV series to the movies (see Eulogy, below...
...disappointed by your portrayal of President Clinton and Saddam on your cover. The juxtaposition of Clinton and a maniacal-looking Saddam panders to a comic-book view of the crisis. I pray for a day when conflict can be handled with maturity and restraint, and we can finally leave the "boys-with-big-guns" attitude behind us. DAVID BESTWICK-SATTERLEE Philadelphia...
...answer to last year's Independence Day. Director Barry Sonnenfeld (The Addams Family, Get Shorty) is just the chef to blend comedy and creepiness, as is writer Ed Solomon (It's Garry Shandling's Show, the Bill & Ted adventures). Early on, they do right by Lowell Cunningham's comic-book premise: that extraterrestrials have landed, that they are a scuzzy lot who deserve to be treated like illegal aliens and that the government has an elite corps of FBI-style agents (notably Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones) to keep them in line. Ah, this explains everything: Velcro, liposuction...
However, like many Gen Xers who forswear the rat race, Smith seems seduced by it. Sure, he still lives in the Jersey 'burbs, with his View Askew Productions only a few blocks from his new condo in Red Bank. Sure, he's invested his profits in buying the local comic-book store. And sure, he claims that moviemaking--especially with his girlfriend as leading lady and a close buddy as producer--is "an easy way to avoid manual labor." But what about the pressure of writing the script for Warner Bros.' big-budget Superman Lives...
Nathaniel was working as a comic-book writer in Manhattan in 1995 when police in Burlington, Vermont, found his father's body in a flophouse. "I didn't know he was in Vermont--and sometimes homeless," Lachenmeyer, 27, admits. Propelled by curiosity and remorse, Lachenmeyer, who had no experience in filmmaking, hired a camera crew and set out to reconstruct his father's final years...