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...Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (Pantheon: 2000) The most perfect novel yet seen in this format, Ware innovates in form and in content to create a uniquely American story, both tragic and gut-splittingly funny. Neither smart nor a kid, Jimmy reunites with his long-lost dad, finds him a great disappointment, and discovers an African-American sister he never knew about...
Frank Zappa’s long-lost sons come to us in the form of Gene and Dean Ween, collectively Ween, who practice eclecticism for the sake of eclecticism and make us all come back for more. You will laugh. Hard. Tickets $23 in advance, $25 at the door. 9 p.m., Avalon, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston...
...hour series, which begins on Feb. 5, takes place in a state-of-the-art hospital built on the grounds of--cue minor-key music--a textile mill that burned down long ago. The lead characters include Dr. Hook, played by long-lost Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy, a "brilliant" surgeon who isn't so brilliant that he can find a home outside the hospital basement or a hobby outside of collecting scalpels. Diane Ladd is Mrs. Druse, a "psychic hypochondriac." Bruce Davison plays Dr. Stegman, a hopelessly incompetent yet arrogant doctor. Naturally, the spirits of the child workers who died...
Shido Nakamura is the proud bearer of a long-lost brand of cool. It's a cool recovered from the mists of history, a pre-TV cool, a primordial cool from an age before cool became bankable. Born and bred in the rarefied world of classical Kabuki?a 400-year-old Japanese theatrical form originated by troupes of itinerant artists and prostitutes?the 30-year-old actor has managed over the past year to convert his tradition-tempered stylishness into modern star power through a series of spectacularly successful film and TV roles. Sipping cranberry juice in a Tokyo caf?...
...this magical movie. An itinerant schoolteacher uses the warplanes constantly overflying the fleeing Kurds as, of all things, a metaphor for mankind's aspirations. Barat finally sees the woman whose voice he loves--weepingly searching a mass grave for her brother's remains. And although Mirza never sees his long-lost beloved, he comes away from their near encounter with her child. The last we see of the old man and child, they are disappearing into a snowy field--heading toward an end we do not know...