Word: cult
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...story. Clot is the hard-boiled, hard-drinking hero of Blood on the Saddle, the first novel by Rafael Reig to be translated into English (smoothly, by Paul Hammond). A finalist for the 2003 Premio Fundación Lara, Spain's top literary prize, the book has become a cult classic. Carlos Clot, said El País, Spain's largest newspaper, is "the new Spanish antihero." If so, then Reig, 42, is the new antihero of Spanish letters. In five imaginative novels, he has subverted language, shuffled genres and generally had mucho fun - as in his 1992 "autobiography...
Prestige counts. But in all likelihood, the success of TV fishing will be based on the cult of personality. Maybe that's why this year's classic winner, soft-spoken Kevin VanDam, got cheers as he entered Pittsburgh's Mellon Arena, while Iaconelli--who finished fifth--received deafening roars. "I've been criticized for being excitable," Iaconelli says. "It's driven by burning desire. But it's also great...
However, Showalter couples his flaws with an earnestness that makes the safe protagonist incredibly endearing. While Michael Showalter might not yet be a household name, his fans have obsessed over his cool camp counselor role in the 2001 cult-classic “Wet Hot American Summer,” his comedy trio “Stella” on Comedy Central, and the long-defunct MTV show “The State...
...American Summer” and your stage show “Stella” gave you crazy cult status. Are you happy with that or do you want to have a more mainstream presence...
...don’t think that’s anything you’re striving for. I mean part of what a cult audience reacts to is the lack of artifice about something. The thing I’d like to see is more adult, grown up people enjoying what we’re doing. [Our work] is accessible but for some reason is not reaching that audience...