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...like a blind man in a room full of deaf people." Paul O'Neill, former Treasury Secretary, describing in his new book the lack of give-and-take in President George W. Bush's Cabinet meetings...
...pages of late-Victorian pulp fiction. Among the characters are Captain Nemo (the mariner of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Dr. Jekyll and his monstrous alter ego, Mr. Hyde, and the sinister protagonist of The Invisible Man (another terrible movie). Writer Alan Moore and illustrator Kevin O'Neill pit them against the invading Martians of Wells' The War of the Worlds in a battle royal for the fate of jolly old England...
...premise this complex and meta could easily turn into high-concept mush, but the many characters play off one another so deftly that instead of one obscuring the other, they illuminate the strange subtexts they have in common. At one point Moore and O'Neill bring in the mad scientist Dr. Moreau (as in The Island of--yet another bad movie), and the grotesque talking animals Moreau breeds become a sinister take on Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows and the talking rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, as well as--this is virtuosity in action, folks--the real...
...Black Angel, 1946 Screenplay by Roy Chanslor, from the 1943 novel by CW Directed by Roy William Neill...
...over no original documents, only 16 pages of letters referring to other documents. That stonewalling has outraged the victims and their families. "You can't have a country like Britain waltzing around as the moral policeman of the world and ignoring concerns in its own backyard," says Greg O'Neill, a lawyer for the victims. He and other victims are weighing whether to sue the British government, both for compensation and in hopes of getting closer to the truth...