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The first dead-on choice was hiring executive producer Greg Daniels, whose animated King of the Hill is TV's most acute satire of suburban mores. The second was casting Steve Carell to reinterpret the nightmare boss originated by Ricky Gervais. Carell's Michael Scott, like Gervais' David Brent, is...
But although disappointing, such missteps are soundly vindicated by the dizzying heights of the climactic last few songs. The crushing epic “She” is as monolithic as a hip-hop Zeppelin, with Jordan Dalrymple’s vaguely Middle Eastern guitar screeches and massive Bonham drums...
And as for poetry, a form invented, and some say perfected, by men (the pen is still supposed to be a metaphorical penis, feminists argue) changing mores have chased guys away from the humanities. In high school, talking about books means talking about feelings: you know, love, despair and loneliness...
Some people feel as if they are living in a novel, but rarely does a novel feel as if it is living in a novel. Yet, such is the case with Posy Simmonds' "Gemma Bovery" (Pantheon, 106 pages, $20), a graphic novel that freely adapts Flaubert's classic "Madam Bovary...
After bashing each other with frying pans for decades, cat-and-mouse cartoon combo Tom and Jerry are fighting a new battle--against Chinese nationalism. Beijing's censors banned the pair from the airwaves in October because Chinese producers had given them voices in local dialects instead of Mandarin, the...