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Finally! After a heat rash of teen comedies that promote adolescence as a frenetic party where every kid pairs off with a comely partner and has fabulous sex, here comes the genre's cleansing, toxic antidote--Ghost World, the Heathers of the new century, the movie that shows how morose and furtive an ordeal growing up can be. Residing both within Enid and Rebecca and at an ironic distance from them, the film allows the viewer to see them--and Seymour, that other displaced person--with a kind of detached sympathy. When Seymour calls himself "an amusingly cranky eccentric curiosity...
...possible and who write "comix" review columns on "the web." Some may even wonder if by making a film the creators are implicitly entering the very universe of mass-cult they rail against in the picture. Fear not. Unlike those shrill, hard-sell teen comedies on the other screens, "Ghost World" never becomes the kind of empty, defensive snark-fest that it targets. Clowes and Zwigoff keep the organic pace of the original, and its empathic exploration of painfully changing relationships...
...those unfamiliar with Clowes, watching "Ghost World" will be as divisive as reading the book. Some will "get it," falling in love with a picture that has alienation and savage cultural ridicule wrapped around a sincere emotional center. Others will exit the theater feeling mystified and vaguely insulted, thinking something like, "Were they making fun of Blockbuster Video...
...Ghost World," the movie, opens today in New York, L.A. and Seattle, and in wider release on August 3. "Ghost World," the comix series, has been collected into paperback and should be available at even second-rate comicbook stores, and regular bookstores...
...take years, and Einhorn will remain in French custody. If the decision is not to extradite, that's it. The Unicorn will walk into the cobblestone streets of Bordeaux with his lovely Swedish wife, the dark conspiracies that fill his head and whatever understanding he has reached with the ghost of Holly Maddux...