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There needed to??be??a??monster. That, in a nutshell, was what J.J. Abrams and his co-creator, Damon Lindelof, decided soon after Lloyd Braun, then ABC's entertainment chairman, gave them this assignment: Write a show about plane-crash castaways on a desert island. The parallel to a certain CBS series was obvious. If Survivor was Gilligan's Island with real people, Lost would be Survivor with fake people. But Abrams, who had raised the spy serial to new heights of cliff-hanging absurdity with Alias, knew that the series would need something extra, something weird, to sustain...
Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling used the eerie-tale genre to get around broadcast strictures, and in a way so does Abrams. Networks have long been afraid that audiences would lose interest in talky, character-driven shows about relationships. So Abrams lets viewers believe they're getting something else. Alias was sold as--and truthfully is--the story of a grad student who becomes a spy. But what really grabbed Abrams was that Sydney Bristow (Garner) has to work with her father Jack (Victor Garber), a chilly pragmatist with whom she has a rocky history. Garner recalls Abrams' pitch: "There...
...Beauchard has a decidedly different look than most every American comic creator, and most French ones too. "I have two kinds of styles influences: an influence from French comics and an influence from art," he says. "I was very impressed during the 1970s with French comics that were very high contrast black and white drawings by artists like Tardi or Hugo Pratt, who came from Italy. And I was very influenced in art by the expressionist work of George Grosz. I was not very fond of superhero books. For me comics are not so different from literature or movies...
...case of Murray's fellow Second City alums John Belushi and Chris Farley) or, worse, the power shifts, and the comedian finds himself chasing after the audience. "There are a lot of people in this field who are extraordinarily needy," says Lorne Michaels, executive producer and a creator of Saturday Night Live. "It's a very hard thing not to give an audience what they want, and it's so easy, so gratifying to give in. But if Bill has neediness in him, he's always kept it a secret. That's why other performers admire him so much...
...actions, forges a relationship with a similarly confused young woman (Scarlett Johansson). Midway through the movie, Harris finds himself half-drunk in a private Tokyo karaoke room singing Roxy Music's More Than This to a group of passed-out Japanese salarymen less than half his age. Murray, the creator of Nick the SNL lounge cretin, never veers from character and never winks at the audience for sympathy. Instead, he turns the song into an awkward, agonizing moment of realization and regret. "That performance," says Hoffman, "is just unbelievable...