Word: jadedness
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But Superman's 64-year journey from Man of Steel to Buffy Boy is just part of the job description. Pop culture changes superheroes to fit the times like a jaded Shakespeare repertory troupe trying to jazz up Hamlet: Batman went from dark avenger to straight arrow to campy TV...
British newspaper columnist Decca Aitkenhead'sThe Promised Land (Fourth Estate; 217 pages). falls neatly into the second group. Touted as a non-fiction travel guide "in search of the perfect E," it follows Aitkenhead and her hubby Paul as they wander through America, Southeast Asia, South Africa and the Netherlands...
Only in this case the waiter would be wrong. Charlie Kaufman is one of Hollywood's hottest It boys. At a time when so many movies seem formulaic--sequels, prequels and comic books--Kaufman's scripts are like the products of chaos theory. His first movie, Being John Malkovich, stunned...
The result of the gifted acting and sick plot lines is a spectacle of dark genius. Death to Smoochy is screwed up, but in a squeamishly delightful kind of way. It is entertaining from Randolph’s opening tap dance and song, “Friends Come in All...
Conley has rich material--horse-mad plutocrats, grisly sexual mishaps--and his prose is never less than engaging. He endows pampered Storm Cat, who commands half a million dollars for a roll in the hay, with "the hauteur and the low body fat of an underwear model." But once you...