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...Creator Ryan Murphy gave us the WB's teen satire Popular, and Nip/Tuck is best when it indulges its gleeful, dark humor about vanity, self-hatred and the essential meatness of the body--as in the pilot's denouement, involving a lipo mishap and several hams. Other times, it veers into pathos. "For 10 years I've been consumed with transforming other people!" Sean screams at Christian during an argument. "Starting today, I'm transforming myself...
...desert island as the product of a Japanese WWII pilot and two American army nurses. The second remarkable moment took place courtesy of Frank Miller, author of "The Dark Knight Strikes Again," who has in recent years become far more interesting as a comics gadfly than a creator. Prior to handing out the "Best Graphic Album - New" award (which rightfully went to Lynda Barry's "One! Hundred! Demons!") Miller lamented the rising cost of a single comicbook. Noting they have reached upwards of $3 a piece, "It's just not working," Miller said, "Our future is not in pamphlets...
...Fuji TV producer and Bayside creator Kameyama argues that Japanese viewers already get plenty of fantasy from Hollywood and are hungry for domestic productions in which they can see reflections of their own lives and experiences. That's why the whole Bayside Shakedown universe was designed as a metaphor for Japan, Inc. "We wanted to depict the daily struggles that average salarymen and office ladies face every day," he says. "We simply transferred it to a police setting." This approach also makes abundant financial sense, adds leading man Oda: "There is no way we can compete with Hollywood budgets...
...angles of a triangle total 180 degrees"; "all bachelors are unmarried"). Hume referred to the latter type of axioms as "self-evident" truths. By using the word "sacred," Jefferson had implied, intentionally or not, that the principle in question--the equality of men and their endowment by their creator with inalienable rights--was an assertion of religion. Franklin's edit turned it instead into an assertion of rationality...
...81st birthday, Franklin was speaking openly against slavery. Accepting the ceremonial presidency of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, he signed a public exhortation that declared "the Creator of the world" made "of one flesh, all the children of men." Still, the surviving records from the Constitutional Convention give no indication that Franklin raised the issue...