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...ROUGH SEAS: Ellen Lindner's "Undertow" in "Scheherazade...
...creepy slice of life story about a perv who stalks a pair of roommates. Nearly every woman has some kind of scary harassment story but seeing one in comix form still comes as a shock. Another commonality in "Scheherazade" is a greater interest in exploring the nuances of relationships. Ellen Lindner's "Undertow," with the look and feel of a comix "Mildred Pierce," paints a noirish portrait of two girlfriends in the 1950s. The book's strongest piece, Gabrielle Bell's "One Afternoon," combines the yin/yang of a relationship study with a compact, twisty plot. Drawn with a simple clarity...
Sassy Wanda Sykes is Sassing her way to a career of sassifying. See, Sykes hates that word, and she's at her funniest when she's angry. "Sassy to me is a put-down. It's given to black women. No one calls Ellen DeGeneres sassy. No one calls Robin Williams sassy. And that's a sassy man," she says. "Sassy is all attitude and no content. And I've got something...
...ELLEN SNUBBED...
...Ellen Degeners, who was voted “Funniest Person in America” back in 1982, confused top Harvard brass last week when she announced—and her publicist appeared to confirm—that she would be the University’s honored guest and speaker at Commencement exercises this June. Of course, like Anne Heche at the Emmys, it turns out Ellen won’t be getting anywhere near the stage, having instead been tapped for the slightly-less prestigious Class Day oration at the Law School. Gadfly thinks Harvard is making a terrible mistake...