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...certain populist auteur made his feature-length debut with 1983’s underappreciated The Hunger, giving world-wide audiences the distinct pleasures of an extraordinarily well-cast David Bowie as an emaciated vampire and a steamy love scene between Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve. Since then, Tony Scott has audaciously continued to hijack mainstream film. Now, he is reunited with Crimson Tide costar Denzel Washington for the story of Creasy, an alcoholic former Special Forces operative recruited by his old friend Rayburn (Christopher Walken) to guard Pita (Dakota Fanning), the young daughter of Mexico City businessman Samuel (Latin heartthrob...
Stenhouse, who tied the record in 1978 and is also the school record-holder in single-season batting average (.475), was a 1979 Oakland A’s first-round draft pick—how many of those have come from Harvard?—and made his MLB debut with the Montreal Expos in 1982. He played three seasons with the Expos and one with the Twins before retiring in 1986 with the Red Sox. Yes, those...
Derek Kirk Kim's debut book, "Same Difference and Other Stories," appeared last year as a self-published paperback, and with a small print run and zero name-recognition it flew under most radars. Suddenly, though, Kim has swooped into our airspace, receiving nominations for two of the top honors in comix: Eisner Award nominations for Best Short Story and Name Deserving of Wider Recognition, and a Harvey Award nomination for Best New Talent. The hat trick: Top Shelf will be reprinting the original book next month in a spiffy new edition. Here is your chance to catch...
...Among other things, Kim has an impressively varied cartooning style. While "Super Unleaded" gets rendered with a cinematic look that underscores its naturalism, "Oliver Pikk" has a zany, Saturday morning cartoonishness. "Same Difference" deftly combines these two styles, blending a realistic approach with some silly caricature. For a debut, "Same Difference" shows a remarkable level of accomplishment at comicbook craft. Although many web comics transfer badly to the printed page, only a few minor pieces in the book suffer, mostly due to blurry typeface...
...Same Difference and Other Stories" and Derek Kirk Kim well deserve their nominations. Kim shows a lot of promise in his varied styles and subtle but subversive Asian American angle. Don't miss this impressive debut...