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...right, though we can see that Steve simply got embarrassed. These are great comix, because, told with few words, Drechsler reveals the character's confusion and awkwardness through the details of her drawing. Her character's body language and facial details are among the most expressive in this medium without being the least bit photo-realistic...
...Drechsler, in one the most recognizable and unique styles in the medium, combines obsessive attention to certain details but not others. She loathes negative space, filling every millimeter of every panel with shading or detail. Clothing always rolls and ripples around the wearer's body thanks to multiple layers of shading. And yet, strikingly, she sometimes pays no attention to such traditional techniques as foreshortening or horizon lines. More strangely, rather than the usual black and white she has chosen a bizarre color scheme that evokes mint chocolate chip ice cream. Like suburbia itself, this peculiar mix of the natural...
...southern California pornography industry in the 1970s and 1980s. The film became an instant critical and audience favorite. In an era where films were dull and lifeless it lived and breathed, and the swooping and panning camera reflected the director’s intoxication with the possibilities of the medium. Soon all eyes were on Anderson. How would he follow up such a huge success? Rumor had it that Anderson wanted to try his hand at a quick 90-minute comedy. Instead, he created perhaps one of the greatest pieces of art in the last 20 years—Magnolia...
...start, Tracy (Marissa Jaret Winokur) is trapped at home, watching "The Corky Collins Show" with her friend Penny Pingleton (Kerry Butler). Fat Mama Edna (Fierstein) wants to be alone in her misery; she growls to Penny, "Go tell your mother she wants you." Edna is married to medium-size Wilbur (Dick Latessa), who runs the local joke shop; his ambition is to "keep the air from leaking out of my sofa-size Whoopee Cushion." The goal Edna mentions has the same working-class practicality about it: she wants to "find a way to get blood out of car upholstery...
...Monkees demonstrated long ago, there's no better medium than television for putting chipper, derivative pop singers on top of the singles charts. KELLY CLARKSON, 20, the former cocktail waitress from Burleston, Texas, who won Fox's American Idol talent contest along with a record deal with RCA, hit the royalties jackpot with A Moment Like This, the song she performed on the show's finale. The tune rose from its early slot of 52 on Billboard's Hot 100 to No. 1. Next month she starts a U.S. tour with nine former rivals, including runner-up Justin Guarini...