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...ROBERT CRUMB'S WIVES AND girlfriends about the Brueghel of underground comics, and they'll say he's morose, withdrawn, almost socially autistic. Crumb agrees, and adds wryly, "That's why I'm such an exciting subject for a movie...
Comic strip artist Robert Crumb is the subject of "Crumb," a documentary thatTIME film critic Richard Corlisssays should have won the Academy Award for best documentary. The movie is a portrait of the "almost socially autistic" artist and his equally strange family. Crumb's fears, particularly of women, whom Crumb feels are so inaccessible "they won't even let me draw them," are chronicled here, as well as the frustration shown in comics with titles like "Words fail me (Pictures Aren't Much Better)." Of Crumb's work Corliss says "With care and wit, he draws his own demons...
Well, their friends got on a trivia list. But with Hoop Dreams-and another brilliant documentary, Crumb-missing, this Oscar category is like major league baseball. The heavy hitters aren't around, and replacement players have taken the field...
...around here -- nothing, that is, except our intimate, bare suffering -- has anything to do with us. For months now, all the NATO pilots have done above us with the blood-curdling sound of their planes' engines has been to scare away the pigeons that have gathered for an odd crumb of our meager but collective lunch...
...Harry Crumb...