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...Desperate Housewives," a dark-humored soap about a clique of suburban woman and their friend who kills herself but manages, "American Beauty"-style, to narrate the show...
Kevin Casey, Harvard’s senior director of federal and state relations, speaks in a tense barrage of language, as though disastrously late for some very important meeting. He’s an unobtrusive presence in most rooms, entering briskly with a dark suit and meticulously combed hair and sometimes leaving even more abruptly to take a key call from Washington. He spends part of each month shuttling between Cambridge and the capital—making for a few parlous hours of the workweek when he can’t be reached by cell phone...
Three years on, Byrne has taken Irina's character to heart. "So sad," she says, recalling Chekhov's play. As are her dark eyes, which appear huge and heavy on this unseasonally wintry Sydney morning. And Byrne hasn't stopped working. Cast as the love interest in what seemed like every Australian movie last year (in fact, only three), internationally her star's on the rise. "But Star Wars was a really small part!" protests Byrne, who played teary handmaiden Dorm? to Natalie Portman's Queen Amidala in 2002's Attack of the Clones. "I feel flattered that you bring...
When writer Chuck Austen got handed Action Comics, another Superman monthly, he knew punches would be thrown, what with the title and all. But Superman is on the receiving end for a change. "As someone who loved the dark side for a long time, I had little or no interest in Superman for years," Austen says. "He was perfect--his powers left him with no vulnerability. So I requested DC allow some cosmetic changes--make him a bit less powerful, a lot more vulnerable physically." Austen's Superman can take a joke as well as a punch. He rags...
...does Superman really have a dark side? An identity even more secret than Clark Kent? A graphic novel called Red Son, written by Mark Millar, answers the question with another question: What if Superman had landed not in the wholesome bosom of Kansas but in the cold heart of Stalin's Soviet Union? Wearing a hammer and sickle on his chest instead of an S, Superman befriends Stalin and succeeds him when the Soviet leader dies. (Stalin, Millar notes astutely, is Russian for "man of steel.") With his rigid notions of right and wrong, telescopic sight and super-hearing that...