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...take the place of finding a way to treat or prevent BSE infection. But the disease may at last be starting to give up its secrets. A number of researchers are convinced that mad cow is caused not by a common bacterium or virus but by a vanishingly small crumb of protein known as a prion...
...comes Old Man Ferguson from just around the block--/ (I can't stand this crock of schlock!)/ The Town Police make sure you never see yourself a bum./ The Litter Agents sweep Offstage the smallest crumb./ The cleanliness can numb you; where'd they stash away the scum?/ We're not dumb; it's in the slum...
...turns funny and poignant. It interlaces old clips (for instance, a peignoired Cary Grant declaring, in Bringing Up Baby, "I just went gay all of a sudden!") with cogent commentary by Gore Vidal, Harvey Fierstein and others. It should be getting raves at Oscar time--except that, like Crumb and Hoop Dreams last year, Celluloid Closet was denied a nomination by the Academy's documentary committee...
...CRUMB Robert Crumb, the Brueghel of underground comic books, sits uneasily for Terry Zwigoff's blistering documentary portrait. Crumb's images of geeky guys and rampaging women seem almost normal next to this picture of his middle-class family--a mother and three gifted, twisted sons--all devoured by demons. Appalling and enthralling, Crumb is the ultimate situation tragedy...
...best-selling Culture of Complaint (1993), and an eight-part PBS series, The Shock of the New (1980). He is completing work on an eight-hour TV special about American art, scheduled to air on BBC late next year. He can also be seen in the new documentary film Crumb, offering a critical assessment of the underground comic artist Robert Crumb...