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...From the start of the Watchmen cult, film people knew two things about the comic book: (1) that it simply had to be made into a movie and (2) that it couldn't. An epic superhero saga, spanning 45 years, with six major characters who all sport double identities and crucial, intertwined back-stories, does not lend itself to the narrative turbo-thrust of a standard action film. Indeed, the superest hero of the bunch - Dr. Manhattan, once known as Jon Osterman - is not an action hero; he's a passive one, a contemplative godhead, a sinewy blue nude Buddha...
...Maybe Watchmen is one of those cult films that doesn't expand beyond the true believers. It probably won't make even alternative movie history. It certainly contains its share of popcorn breaks: hit the concession stand whenever Dan and Laurie start their mooning. But it bravely pursues its agenda with a monomaniacal grandeur, on the order of Speed Racer and Synecdoche, New York. (Loyal readers will understand that I mean this as a compliment.) Both admirable for and cramped by its fidelity to the Moore vision, this ambitious picture is a thing of bits and pieces. Yes, the bits...
...relatively well when purchasing power got into a tough spot - cell phones and PCs. It may be that the focus on tech growth potential has been too much about Apple (AAPL) which has done well, at least in its most recent quarter. But, Apple is as much a cult as a business. Some people will borrow themselves into the poor house to own a new Mac or iPhone. (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure? I walk down the street, and it's not like people are mobbing me. But I do get recognized sometimes - which is very new for a writer. A writer is supposed to have anonymity. And the result of that is that I think I'm all that. My ego is completely out of control. I think you're going to see that in some of the work coming...
Some things were unavailable--quit being stingy with the Top Chef, Bravo!--but what I lost in choice I made up for in serendipity. I downloaded video podcasts from Cook's Illustrated, watched Rob Corddry's Web comedy Children's Hospital and rediscovered the cult comedy Strangers with Candy (with a pre--Daily Show Stephen Colbert) because it turned up randomly through the Joost app on my iPhone...