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Hutz became aware of his own extended gypsy family in rural Ukraine as a teenager, and it's an identity he embraces. In the 2006 documentary Pied Piper of Hutzovina he embarks on a musical pilgrimage through Roma camps in the Carpathians to Siberia to meet his hero, seven-string guitarist Sasha Kolpakov. For Hutz, his Roma heritage is more than just hobby geneaology. "When you talk to gypsyologists they will always try to downplay the romantic side of the stereotype," he says, preparing backstage for a show at the Brixton Academy. "But even if you downplay it, it will...
Conversation with Hutz flits from Charlie Chaplin (a hero) to comparing the melancholy of Eastern Europeans with the concept of duende in the Spanish arts. Then he'll slip back into casual mode, calling Madonna, with whom he performed at Live 8 in front of two billion people, "a great chick to hang with...
...policier than helped yank Hollywood's depiction of African-American males from the sanctity of Sidney Poitier into the grittier image of the stud male who rules the streets with a sizzling machismo - was a cunning mix of wocka-wocka percussion, soaring violins, a sassy girl group whispering the hero's name as if it were a phallic deity and, anchoring it all, the basso talk-singing of the studly composer. "Who's the black private dick / That's a sex machine to all the chicks?" Girls: "SHAFT!" Hayes: "Ya damn right!" Hayes: "They say this cat Shaft...
...ignoring the first rule of dealing with Parker and Stone: These guys have their own TV soapbox, so don't piss them off. They snipped together lines of dialogue from earlier Hayes speeches to create the March 2006 episode The Return of Chef, in which South Park's local hero is charged with child molesting before wild animals tear his limbs off - and those are only the printable indignities...
Before the accident, the nameless hero of Andrew Davidson's The Gargoyle (Doubleday; 468 pages) was a freakishly handsome, drug-addicted porn star who was also, deep breath, an orphan and a misunderstood genius who secretly wrote poetry. This is what Brits call overegging the pudding. But in the burn ward, he becomes almost plausible. He banters bitterly with his doctors and plans an elaborate suicide. Davidson could have just stopped here and called it The American Patient...