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...McCay, a pioneer of both comics and animation ("Little Gertie the Dinosaur"), followed the adventures of a little boy in the world of dreams until, at the end of every episode, he awakens. Some of the most visually inventive comics ever created, McCay's strips would put Nemo through diamond palaces, into the mouths of dragons, and as a giant who climbs among the New York skyscrapers, pre King Kong. Though collected in various editions over the years, this one is the finest, reprinting the best of the full-page strip at its original, giant tabloid size (16x21 inches!) with...
...White Diamond...
...borderline bonkers, ?star? of Grizzly Man, who lived among kodiak bears each fall in southern Alaska. The other is Graham Dorrington, a London University aeronautical engineer, who wants to build and fly a hot air balloon - not a behemoth like the Hindenburg, but a small airship called The White Diamond. ?We can realize our dreams!? says this excitable scientist, who often seems near laughter or tears. ?Let?s go fly!? Now he has come to the wilds of Guyana in hopes of launching his dream...
...lost parts of two fingers; later, in Sumatra, a colleague died in an airship crash for which the aeronaut still feels guilt. Occasionally oppressed by his melodramatic mien, Herzog turns to Dorrington?s Guyanese assistant, the gentle, mystical Mark Anthony Yhap. But the attempts to get the White Diamond up are at the heart of the film. And when, accompanied by beautiful choral music, the airship finally rises to soar over the forests and villages, or is viewed as a reflection in the river water (where it looks like a giant white blowfish), the movie attains an astonishing spiritual buoyancy...
...write about, for fear of being offensive. “Scene,” however, doesn’t even try to reflect any of this diversity, and merely inspires constant exclamations of, “Who are these people?” and “Are those diamond cufflinks?”But even if Scene retracted its claim to diversity, and eliminated all of its entrenched classism, it would still a proponent of wearing an oxford shirt without pants, sporting “dangerous” ties at the Westminster Dog Show, and wearing black T-shirts...