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...Saturday Night Live in 1977, writer-performer Al Franken - or, in the comic self-promotional character he played called "Me, Al Franken" - announced that he might run for President. In 2008, he will most likely run for U.S. Senator from his home state of Minnesota. As he says of his presumed opponent, Norm Coleman, "I?d be the only New York Jew in the race who is actually from Minnesota." For now, Franken writes best-selling Right-baiting books and hosts a daily three-hour show on Air America Radio, a perch from which he inveighs against the White House...
...could just see how you could make it into a movie, so when I heard about [the movie version], I got really excited.”X-Men: The Last StandDue Out: May 26Many seem to be revving up to see the third and final installment of the blockbuster comic book franchise. Sheel C. Ganatra ’06 has been an X-fan since childhood: “I watched the Saturday morning cartoon growing up. I’m anxious to see Jean Grey turn into the Phoenix,” he says, referring...
...1978’s landmark Supreme Court case FCC v. Pacifica Foundation. A listener to Pacifica’s New York City station filed a complaint after George Carlin’s infamous “Filthy Words” bit—in which the legendary stand-up comic and counter-culture icon gleefully lists and graphically annotates the anatomical, excretory, and reproductive colloquialisms deemed unfit for broadcast media...
...Artist by Eddie Campbell, of From Hell fame, continues the author's recent interest in alternate forms of autobiography (see Alec: How to Be an Artist.) A bold, Pirandellian book, Fate is structured like a detective story, but the missing character is the author himself. Fusing text, traditional comic pages, gag strips, and photos, the book's form reflects its fractured content as it swings from detective pastiche to domestic anecdotes to meditations on the role of art. Through it all, Campbell maintains a sharp eye, strong wit and stimulating intelligence. Though not entirely coherent, Campbell's big thinking...
...multi-volume series, but aimed at young readers. The book collects short, silly stories that feature Sardine, a little girl who dresses like a witch, travels around in space with her pirate uncle and trouble-making cousin Little Louie, and gets into goofy adventures battling Supermuscleman, a comical bad guy who wants to capture all the children of the universe. As a comic for very young readers, it has plenty of funny visuals and easy plots. In one, the group has to win a dance contest on Planet Discoball in order secure gasoline. But its episodic nature keeps the characters...