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French has been producing comix for nearly ten years, including the series "Grit Bath," "Corny's Fetish," and "The Ninth Gland," all of which are included in this thick black and white collection. Nearly every one of the twenty-odd, short and long stories contain grotesqueries, mutilation, death or all three. What makes her work different from the boring, violent books that crowd the shelves is that she actually gets to the emotional center of what repulses...
...writers wanted a lot more on residuals and foreign sales. I bet the Writers? Guild is trying to figure out a way to say, okay, we didn?t get everything we wanted but we did get this, and here?s why that?s good. Producers are going to grit their teeth and squeeze out a few more concessions without losing credibility...
...Bears were able to plate eight runs against the Big Red in the first inning. Cornell showed its grit, coming back to score nine in their half of the inning. The Big Red went on to win 14-10, and took the second game...
...notice similarities here with the work of filmmaker Mike Leigh, director of such British working-class dramas as "Secrets & Lies" and "Raining Stones." "Breakfast After Noon" doesn't have quite the grit of those films, though. The secondary characters aren't very fleshed out, and the story lacks the complexity of the Leigh films, which are also much more political than "Breakfast." On the other hand, you don't need subtitles to get past the accents...
...course, there's something delusional in such musings, particularly when they go in the opposite direction. President Carter, for example, awarded John Wayne the Medal of Freedom as "an example of true American grit and determination," when of course Wayne had simply grown wealthy portraying such Americans onscreen...