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Macy's first advantage is size. "It's now got the potential to be a Godzilla," says David Wolfe, a fashion retail consultant for the Doneger Group in New York City. Like Wal-Mart in the discount world, Macy's will wield a big and powerful roar that gives it leverage to get the best prices and exclusive products from vendors. But the recent history of retail suggests that size alone may not work. The most successful retailers have found their footing by focusing on one slice of the market. Luxury purveyors like Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom and Bloomingdale...
Rewind to 2000. Broderick had been gamely vamping his way through big-budget nonsuccesses (Godzilla, Inspector Gadget) while quietly surprising a few dozen moviegoers with skillful turns in low-budget indies (Election, You Can Count on Me). Lane had given what looked like, and should have been, a breakout performance opposite Robin Williams in The Birdcage in 1996. But no. "Nothing. I had two offers," says Lane, with a touch of pardonable bitterness. "One was, I was asked to play Mr. Magoo, which I turned down. The other was a film called Mousehunt. That was it." Nobody questioned his talent...
...that celebrity is a stroke of good luck punishable by death. Have creepy fun with Perfect Blue; then move on to Kon's Millennium Actress, another, gentler mix of suspense and movie lore. It's an anime tribute to live-action Japanese films, from delicate family dramas to the Godzilla epics of a devastated Tokyo...
Monster-movie parables were the Pop Art of the early nuclear age. Japan got its cinematic revenge for the A-bomb with the story of a prehistoric monster (called Gojira at home, Godzilla abroad), its eon-long sleep disturbed by an A-blast, that rises from the depths to stomp on Tokyo. In dozens of sequels, the beast devolved into a toy or a clown. But here, just nine years after Hiroshima, Gojira is a political metaphor that roars majestically to life...
...incidentally, she also wrote about the Beatles and Godzilla. Seriousness was one of Sontag's lifelong watchwords, but what she sometimes dared to take seriously were matters that educated opinion, as it emerged from the cramped quarters of the 1950s, dismissed as trivia. At a time when the barriers between high- and lowbrow were absolute, she argued for a genuine openness to the pleasures of pop culture. In "Notes on Camp," the 1964 essay that first made her name, she defined what was then a little-known set of arcane understandings--common within the gay world, not so common outside...