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...instant-classic comic book Sandman, and he's the author of the new novel Anansi Boys, out this month. He has a new movie, Mirrormask, which also opens Sept. 30. They chatted on the phone together-chaperoned by TIME's Lev Grossman-about their work, their fans, their Klingon bodyguards and, of course, Timecop...
...likes of Kylie Minogue, he would be famous merely for being one of the world's greatest living writers. He chats with TIME's Lev Grossman about his new novel, Shalimar the Clown (coming in September), the crisis in Kashmir, the nature of tragedy and the future of the Klingon race...
...them, usually late on hot summer nights, the air conditioning dialed down to freezing, like space. I became, of course, a stupendous nerd. It had been sort of sweet when I merely yearned to be transported from a world I couldn't control. Now I was learning Klingon phrases...
Daring, in part, because of the tone, at once playful and dead serious. The movie begins with the Shaw Bros. fanfare, switches to a cheesy, scratchy OUR FEATURE PRESENTATION sign, then offers "Revenge is a dish best served cold. --old Klingon proverb." (In other words, Warning to audiences: We will have fun. You will get wet.) But there's no kidding in the Bride's plan or demeanor; Thurman's laser stare could find Saddam and kill Osama. The showdowns with her main adversaries--Ishii and Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox)--are no laughing matter either. These are women...
...easy to think that Star Trek inspires either adoration or loathing--that you love it so much you say your wedding vows in Klingon, or you pity those who do. But most who have read even this far know there's another class of Trekker--the closeted ones. These are people who aren't telling co-workers they plan to see Star Trek: Nemesis, the 10th Trek film, which opens Friday. They won't admit they watch UPN's Enterprise, the sixth--sixth--TV series in the franchise. They tell buddies they are going to Vegas for blackjack and bourbon...