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...early and tragic death of a hero, a leader or a cultural icon always produces reactions of greater intensity than the sad passing on of a revered figure at a grand old age. The loss is not the pang of regret. It's the burning pain of what might have been...
...AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY: Michael Chabon's serious but never somber tribute to the golden age of American comic books leaps 600 pages in a single bound. The title characters create an imaginary pulp icon while they live through a vivid era of real-life melodramas from the 1930s...
...Gibson looms over himself. A gallery of movie posters hangs in his office at Icon Productions, his company with its headquarters on the Paramount lot in Hollywood. "The Man Without a Face:" Gibson in silhouette in the distance, the actor shadowed in his 1993 directorial debut. "Ransom:" closeup of Gibson, blue eyes blazing with righteous desperation. "Maverick:" James Garner, Jodie Foster and Gibson, all of them smiling, no doubt thinking about how much they were paid. On each poster, on each face, Gibson has added a mustache with a heavy black marker - a graphic display of his famously self-deprecating...
...been credited with political statements from anarchy to fascism, Fairey maintains the campaign's neutrality. "The reason Andre works is that it has no agenda," he told the Boston Phoenix in 1995. "All I've tried to do is--like Warhol--make the run of the mill into an icon...
...immediately greeted with a chorus of jeers from my blocking group. "You look like the sixth member of 'NSync," said one. "Hooray!" I replied. But the boos and flying butternut squash drove me back to my room to change. Sigh. The pressures of being a pop culture icon...