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That experience counted for nothing. In all three offices, the memo was pretty much ignored, disappearing into the black hole of bureaucratic hell that is the FBI. That was the second key mistake. Sources tell TIME that the memo was never forwarded--not even to the level of Mike Rolince, chief of the international-terrorism section. "The thing fell into the laps of people who were grossly overtaxed," says a senior FBI official. The G-men claim to have been swamped by tips about coming al-Qaeda operations. But Williams was onto something. The flight students he was tracking were...
Some of these literary, niche comics have inspired movies: last year's From Hell and Ghost World, this summer's The Road to Perdition. But they weren't introducing new men in tights to the mass consciousness. And with few exceptions, superhero comics became cartoon hackwork. "With Steve Ditko, Spider-Man had these sexual undertones to it that read as being the work of a singular artist," says Clowes. Today's successors, he says, are "just a 10th-generation regurgitation of the same stuff over and over." The comic crowd became older, insular and cultish while kids turned to video...
...JIMMY CORRIGAN: SMARTEST KID ON EARTH" BY CHRIS WARE AND "SAFE AREA GORAZDE" BY JOE SACCO ACHIEVE NEW HEIGHTS IN THE ART FORM, GAINING WIDESPREAD RECOGNITION. "GHOST WORLD" AND "FROM HELL" MOVIES BASED ON NONSUPERHERO COMICS, APPEAR...
...official literary term for this genre yet, but let's call it Chinese Chick Lit. If you look at books like Adeline Yen Mah's Falling Leaves and Anhua Gao's To the Edge of the Sky, you'll find a basic formula: a feisty, exotically gorgeous woman suffers hell. Hell comes in the form of an oppressive regime (usually the Cultural Revolution) or through abuse inflicted by male power figures (heartless fathers or cruel husbands...
...seen in 29-year-old French director Siegfried Debrebant's as yet untitled film about youth. "He just turned up last year in Tokyo and asked if I wanted to make a movie the next day. We don't even speak a common language, but I thought why the hell not." We can't argue with that...