Word: godzilla
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...superheroic mission of defending the First Amendment rights of commix artists. Published in conjunction with the recent Small Press Expo (see TIME.comix coverage), "SPX 2002" has nearly fifty comix artists (most of them unknown) working in a short biographical format. Subjects run wildly from the man in the Godzilla suit to ethnobotonist Richard Evans Schultes to a stock-car-racing monkey named Jocko. Not only fun but educational - I was pleased to learn the origin of the Jacuzzi and the Leslie speaker - this clever theme limits the self-indulgence of the works and virtually forces creators to write linear narratives...
...hours "We are horrified. It's like being called the Viagra family." Russell Cialis, public relations consultant, explaining why he's fighting to make Eli Lilly rename its Cialis impotence drug "I feel joy when I see the Tokyo government office or Ginza, where I work, destroyed by Godzilla." Hideki Ogawa, recording engineer, on why he is eagerly anticipating the 26th Godzilla film since...
...achieve this feel, virtually every element of the film, from cast to camerawork, borrows enthusiastically from combat cinema's archives. One scene will be shot in the flickery black-and-white of the Godzilla genre, another will unfold entirely in Japanese anim?. Tarantino even sent his cinematographer, Oscar winner Bob Richardson (Platoon, JFK, Wall Street), lists of must-see Samurai and Shaw Brothers' classics like Five Fingers of Death and One Armed Swordsman as a pre-production crash course in the camerawork of the kick-flick canon...
...next five months, though, all manner of speculation, panic and pride will rain down on Giants centerfielder Hideki Matsui, 28, the free-agent slugger, two-time MVP and former batting champion who is called Godzilla "because I look so scary," he says. The 1.9 m, 95.3 kg Hideki bears the fortunate burden of playing for Japan's oldest, most successful team, an institution combining the prestige of the Yankees and the fan reverence accorded Notre Dame. The Giants always lead the league in attendance and give their stars a profile Ichiro could only have dreamed of when he played...
...standard of judgment, Hickey has endorsed without shame some of the great middlebrow passions of the past century, from Liberace to Perry Mason. His essay on Siegfried and Roy, the illusionists who make whole pachyderms dematerialize, is the best meditation on a pop-culture subgenre since Susan Sontag met Godzilla. He is suspicious of art that claims to transmit transcendent truths. Jackson Pollock wanted his spattered canvases to represent universal psychic turmoils. Hickey loves them but says they are better regarded as freedom made visible. "They stand as permission for certain kinds of human behavior." He tells the story...