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Creator and writer of the influential 1990's space television show Babylon 5 and long-time writer for Marvel Comics, J. Michael Straczynski scored some impressive co-workers for his first feature film screenplay. Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood, stars Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich. Straczynski spoke to TIME about writing for the big screen and why he's not ashamed that his house looks like a 14-year old's crash...
...Cough in the Car Before there was a Marlboro Man, there was a Marlboro baby. The New York Public Library is celebrating the golden age of advertising, when doctors, babies, even Santa endorsed smoking. If you can't get to the show, marvel at the posters online at tobacco.stanford.edu...
...managing to evade any morsel of complexity or implied action. Soon you realize that these movie legends are being paid millions to pull a simple trick on you. But at that point, your ten dollars are already spent. Immerse yourself in canned, simplistic dialogue and predictable plot twists, then marvel at De Niro and Pacino’s flabby, AARP exteriors and the hot forensic scientist babes who are inexplicably attracted to them! The problem is that “Righteous Kill” relies upon clichés instead of taking time to actually develop. The audience is deprived...
...Thang For You.” As on previous Girl Talk albums, there are still plenty of satisfying “ah-ha!” moments when obscured bass lines or vocal tracks suddenly emerge in full force, allowing the listener to identify them and marvel at their complete transformation. “Feed the Animals” is more hyperactive than Girl Talk’s previous album “Night Ripper,” with songs darting from genre to genre and rarely lingering long on any one loop. Though this hyperactivity may overwhelm at points...
...West Coast jazz fusion - a connoisseur's form that mingled jazz, pop, R&B and funk, setting store above all on sheen and virtuosity. Although derided by jazz traditionalists, the genre had an exotic sophistication to middle-class Asian ears - and Jarreau was its house vocalist, his marvel of a voice swooping out of the speakers in Hong Kong penthouses and Tokyo wine bars...