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...billing, but she is merely an ornament to the plot; the outlaw band provides the real fun. Reiner’s Saul captures the weary, seasoned older guard while young upstart Mormon brothers Virgil and Turk Malloy (Casey Affleck and Scott Caan respectively) bicker constantly throughout and serve as comic foils to the rest of the crew. They are caricatures, but they are also depicted with unabashed glee, a homage to Rat Pack’s brazen, fraternizing spirit...
...lecture, titled “Comix 101: Some Notes on the History and Evolution of Comic Art,” covered the history of comics from early comic strip artists like Rodolphe Töpffer through Charles Schultz and finally to modern artists such as Chris Ware and Spiegelman himself...
...know ... " Yuko giggles. (They've heard of groupies who have partied with the band.) Passing men notice them, and the girls know they can always use them for a free meal or a bed. But they settle in a manga kissa, a brightly lit caf? lined with shelves of comic books and crowded with other teens, curling up until morning, when they'll hop a train to the next stop on the boy band's tour...
...figure out what is appropriate right now. Some, like the creators of the popular French satirical show Les Guignols, have found themselves under attack for continuing to mock the suspect intelligence of George W. Bush. But others seem to be finding the right balance. Ellen DeGeneres, the American comic, received a standing ovation after hosting the twice-delayed Emmy Awards, a show she opened by joking: "What would bug the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews...
...Fred and Ginger The world of technology has never been short of eccentrics and obsessives, of rich, brilliant oddballs with strange habits and stranger hobbies. But even in this crowd, Dean Kamen stands out. The 50-year-old son of a comic-book artist, he is a college dropout, a self-taught physicist and mechanical engineer with a handful of honorary doctorates, a multimillionaire who wears the same outfit for every occasion: blue jeans, a blue work shirt and a pair of Timberland boots. With the accent of his native Long Island, he speaks slowly, passionately--and endlessly...