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Which Batman incarnation have you enjoyed more, the campy '60s one or the grim, "I want to commit suicide if I have to watch half an hour more of this" Dark Knight from this past summer?There are aspects of all the various incarnations that I like. The animator Bruce Timm, I think, got it best. He was the art director and designer for Batman: The Animated Series. The opening credits are the single best Batman movie that anybody has ever made. It's about 45 seconds and there's no dialogue or words on the screen. It's brilliantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Designer Chip Kidd | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...from next year's budget and Viacom's Paramount Pictures is shrinking its slate from 25 movies a year to 20. But how bad the industry is hurt and which sectors are hit hardest will depend in part on an important calculation that consumers make - how much is an hour of fun worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will Recession Affect the Entertainment Biz? | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...entire entertainment and leisure budget," says Michael Pachter, an analyst who tracks video games at the securities firm Wedbush Morgan. "You're going to see a shift from high-cost forms of entertainment to low." Parents may cancel a Christmas ski trip that would cost about $40 per hour, the logic goes, and instead spring for Nintendo's Wii Fit so the family can do some virtual skiing through the long, cold winter at a cost of $1 per hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will Recession Affect the Entertainment Biz? | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...loves me, she loves me not” is roughly equivalent to torturing a small dog with a car battery.Perhaps this should be expected. Switzerland already has animal protection laws ad absurdum. Last month, a set of laws went into effect that require canine owners to take a four-hour course before buying a dog, anglers to take a course on how to catch fish humanely, and pet owners to protect goldfish privacy by not having tanks be transparent on all sides. Only in a country that has discussions on goldfish privacy can the inherent dignity of plants be seriously...

Author: By Steven T. Cupps | Title: Considering the Lilies of the Field | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...screen in June of last year, many of the show’s dedicated fans were furious. People had fallen in love with emotionally complicated crime boss Tony Soprano and had tuned in episode after episode, only to have the show come to an unceremonious end less than an hour after Tony’s intricate web of conflict had finally unraveled. I sympathize with those who felt cheated, but I’ve grown to realize that “Sopranos” fans were the lucky ones.It may sound strange to praise a long-running show?...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Diagnosing 'House' With a Terminal TV Illness | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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