Word: godzillas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rainbow (1973), rumors have circulated among the faithful that the elusive author was working on two new projects: a novel about Japanese monster movies and one dealing with the 18th century drawing of the Mason-Dixon line between the (then) colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Fragments of a Godzilla-like episode indeed appeared in Pynchon's Vineland (1990), and now here comes a real monster: Mason & Dixon (Henry Holt; 773 pages...
...Godzilla, however, is a special case. When one thinks of Japanese exports, one generally thinks of cars or electronics. Maybe sushi. But definitely not popular culture. There is one growing exception to this trend: Japanese animation, more commonly referred to as anime, from a children's series called Doraemon...
Earlier this month, an 86-year-old Japanese man named Tomoyuki Tanaka died of a stroke. He was none other than the creator of Godzilla, and his legacy is surviving beyond...
DIED. TOMOYUKI TANAKA, 86, Godzilla godfather; in Tokyo. He was head of Toho Films in 1956 when, with director Ishiro Honda, he dreamed up the city-stomping monster. The toothy marauder, initially created to express horror at the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, starred in 22 films,a Japanese Jurassic Park unto himself...
NOVELL HIRES A GEEK GODZILLA...