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...might expect. That's not to say he's good. He's not even acting. He's the same old Tarantino we saw in Four Rooms, From Dusk Til Dawn, and (for the less fortunate among us) Destiny Turns on the Radio: a swaggering geek with delusions of tough-guy grandeur...
...idiosyncratic universe of "Scud" is generated out of a bizarre fusion of selected elements of the popular culture of the last decade or so: action movies, popular music, noir films, video games, Dungeons & Dragons, Japanese robot cartoons. The resonances evoke the increasingly trendy ideas of a sort of "geek chic," based on the artifacts of mainstream male teenage culture of the 1980s and early 90s, overlaid with a technophilic edge: it's a world born out of John Woo movies, computer hacking and the fandom of comic books themselves. It's a universe in which attitude is everything...
VIRTUAL SPA: FROM GEEK TO CHIC...
SEINFELD WANNABES Walter Mossberg and Stephen Manes may be among the best-known tech journalists in print, but that doesn't mean their new public-TV show, Digital Duo (airing this fall), will succeed--especially since geek TV shows aren't exactly nipping at Jerry's heels...
Barnum is one of the more honest characters in Jacobs' conflation of fact and fiction. In effect, the legendary showman leads a kind of geek chorus of real and imagined religious zealots, yellow journalists, gangsters and robber barons. The Wall Street rogue Jay Gould actually sells someone a piece of the Brooklyn Bridge. A Jewish peddler leaves the fold to become a dowser for parched anti-Semites. Hull changes the name of a new cigar from Pickaninny to Uncle Tom after hearing that black smokers might be offended...