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...Before there was a superhero, there had to be a hero. In the early '30s that was Dick Tracy, Chester Gould's city cop with an FBI agent's love of forensics and gadgetry (the Crimestopper's Textbook instructed kids on how to catch bad guys). What's striking today about the strip is its sanctified sadomasochism. No question, Tracy could dish it out, as in this sequence from 1947: "Like a whip, a piece of chain flies through the air - a chain attached to Tracy's cane handle. AGAIN AND AGAIN, the chain slashes! Tiny pieces of glass...
...minute, Adams and McGuinness can't now step back from the party's decision. Opposition to law enforcement is no longer a strategic principle. Martin McGuinness's future is in talking to the police instead of hiding from them - or worse. At this point, anything else would be a cop...
...played a seasoned cop and an eccentric attorney, but for many people, William Shatner will always be a fearless space explorer from a long-gone TV series--a role he is now handing off to another actor. Shortly after Shatner, 75, was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Hall of Fame last month, he talked with TIME's Clayton Neuman about bad game shows, bringing peace to the Middle East and, unavoidably, the Captain Kirk Star Trek legacy...
...Gibson? Though his highest-profile public role in 2006 was as a raving drunk, and his sound man was a cop, Mel is in seventh place, same as last year. The Americans polled seem to have short-term memory loss. Or else they abide by the maxim: It's not who you are, but who you used to play. They like Mel, and a few anti-Jewish lunacies haven't eradicated their affection...
...returns to is quieter and less declarative. Walking through "Light Sensitive" at the Ian Potter Centre, one could be forgiven for thinking that the era of the defining image has passed. Pictures prefer to slink from easy definition: neither one thing nor the other. Rather than being a cop-out, though, it's perhaps a simple acknowledgment that life is more complicated...