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...Against the Day weighs just 3 oz. less than my toaster. But my toaster doesn't offer the tantalizing music of Pynchon's voice, with its shifts from comic shtick to heartbroken threnody, its mordant Faulkneresque interludes, its gusts of lyric melancholy blown in by way of F. Scott Fitzgerald, its ecstatic perorations from Jack Kerouac. And my toaster will never lay before me a vision of a world in which technology is stripping away all the ancient, vital magic while shepherding mankind to the brink of destruction. On the other hand, my toaster makes toast, and nothing quite...
...Victoria, a different race is on. Already much of the work is out of its yellow starting boxes - one intriguingly marked mug pop - and seven years after the artist's death, the betting is that his retrospective, "Howard Arkley," will be a winner. Arkley's 25-year career connected comic strips and Conceptualism, Surrealism and suburbia, punk rock and Postmodernism - all with the zip of his airbrush, blurring the line between rarefied art and popular taste in the process. He was able to do this by painting the world most Australians know. In the final rooms of the exhibition - among...
...every film in the Criterion list is a textbook classic. Quite a few are just hugely enjoyable bagatelles that deserve to be treated with care. As you probably already know, Donen's 1963 comic thriller is about a young American widow (the ever-stylish Audrey Hepburn) on the run in Paris from a trio of criminals who think she can lead them to the fortune her late husband stole from them. The is-he-or-isn't-he-trustworthy stranger who takes her under his wing is Cary Grant. The digital transfer is every bit as lustrous as what Kurosawa...
...licorice locks haven’t lost their bounce.Lulu Moppet, better known as the lively “Little Lulu” of the eponymous cartoon, has made her way across newspapers, silver screens, and lunch-box covers since she was first created in 1935. Now, the comic starlet has landed in Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library among a historical legion of America’s women. The “Marge Papers,” a collection of drawings and documents that belonged to “Little Lulu” creator Marjorie Henderson Buell, were donated...
...director of memorably powerful and violent movies (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator), Ridley Scott is making his first attempt at comic romance. His new film, A Good Year, stars Russell Crowe and is adapted from A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle, who has a home near Scott's in France (see review, p. 145). Scott, 68, talked with Belinda Luscombe about the French, Francis Ford Coppola's wine and how we'd all really like Kingdom of Heaven if we just saw more...