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ENGAGED. CATHY GUISEWITE, 46, chronicler of the travails of the Single Woman, whose alter ego "Cathy" has become a comic-strip fixture, and CHRISTOPHER WILKINSON, 46, screenwriter of Nixon; in Los Angeles...
...slick-talking, backstabbing nemesis in "Jerry Maguire," could have lent a little more comic verve to his appealing but bland Mr. Nice Guy. Bacon merely drifts in and out as the perverse Mr. Wrong in one of his most forgettable roles. If anything, the movie could have used more of the potential spice of the two supporting females: there isn't nearly enough of Illeana Douglas or Olympia Dukakis as Kate's anxious, marriage-obsessed mother (a figure right out of the comic-strip "Cathy," but Dukakis could have added some much-needed edge...
...exhibit is rounded off by a small collection of posters from the International Festival of Angouleme, France's annual comic-strip exposition--usually attended by over a hundred thousand people in the course of its four-day run--and a much larger collection of comic albums and spin-off products from France and its cultural neighbors. The commercial products range from the predictable (watches, keychains, slippers) to the completely startling (massive commemorative etched-glass slabs, bottles of wine). Amusing as these are, the overall effect of the exhibit is somewhat disappointing, partly due to an evident lack of support...
...competition for workers inspires some recruiters to try novel approaches. Cisco Systems, a computer networking company that is hiring employees at the rate of 1,200 a quarter, links its online recruitment site cisco.com/jobs/ to the home page for Dilbert, the hapless comic-strip geek Everyman, much loved in the Valley. And just last month San Francisco drivers were startled by a billboard that shouted in electronic letters: CISCO Systems. 600 JOBS AVAILABLE...
Lichtenstein has been typecast as "the comic-strip artist," but in fact comic strips take up only an early phase of his work. By 1965 he had stopped basing images on them. He was never to refer to comics again, except now and then by including a parody of one of his own earlier paintings in a parody of an elegant interior -- ah, well, I'm a classic too now, feels funny but that's art-life...