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...Screen Actors Guild chose Daniel Day-Lewis and Renee Zellweger as statuette sure shots. As for "Gangs of New York," you might not have picked it for Best Film vote, but you also didn't guess that the Martin Scorsese picture would win exactly as many Oscars as "Jackass: The Movie" - zero. (And I know a couple of people who think "Jackass" wuz robbed.) "Far from Heaven," another critics' favorite and the winner of five Independent Spirit awards the night before, also was shut out. The savants at goldderby.com averaged only about 50% in their picks of the top eight...
...longest story of the book, bounces back and forth from a beleaguered mother to her daydream of being young, beautiful and nude, romping through idyllic hills and riding on giant, flying bugs. Shot down by a sleazy-looking cupid, she falls for a man with the head of a jackass. (Caveat emptor: pages 26 and 27 have been transposed in the printing, a fact you take for granted given topsy turvy nature of this work.) The Fellini-esque fantasy of a woman in the food court whose reality creates disturbing parallels in her dream world, "Eros" has a funny...
...clever about "Eros" is the way Herpich uses the forms contained in a panel to mimic those of its predecessor. A fallen ice-cream cone transposes into an eye and a nose; the fluttering wings of a bug cut to a matching close-up of the ears of the jackass. These visual puns are the equivalent of clever poetic wordplay, but unique to comix. Herpich, who's pen and ink drawings are otherwise fairly simple, has a gift for the infinitely variable patterns of comix. Through repetition and pauses, panels that repeat something from before or else contain nothing...
...haven’t received a congratulatory phone call from MTV—yet. I will continue to spend my free time pondering just what kind of defense jock straps can offer in the face of a paintball gun (Jackass), and boyfriends who let their girlfriends be Internet exhibitionists (Sex2k). Even with the pressures of college life, I’ll keep getting my MTV fix. Whether the channel—with or without me—can get other people to join in this obsession- remains to be seen...
...years, at his peak winning 80% of the viewing audience. Eventually, TV grew up--anyway, it grew older --and by the mid-'50s Berle's innocent vulgarity had given way to more domestic, less frantic fare. But his ghost still haunts the tube. The Fear Factor daredevils, the Jackass prankster-masochists, the talk-show mutants who will do anything for a laugh or a shock--all are the nieces and nephews of Uncle Miltie. --By Richard Corliss...