Word: netherworld
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...final panelist was political cartoonist Peter Kuper, who said he now exists in a self-proclaimed "netherworld between politics and Garfield...
...standard Hollywood film, Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) would be the villain: he sports a goatee, smokes and--gasp!--reads books. Yet in the Polanski netherworld, Corso is the hero, in search of the devil's autobiography. Before it goes both sluggish and batty, the movie offers some of the grace notes of classic thrillers. It's handsome and elaborate, with nicely quirky turns by Depp, Frank Langella and Emmanuelle Seigner (Mrs. P). Polanski, the perpetual exile, has made his most accessible film since fleeing the U.S. soon after Chinatown...
Luckily, I have a family that will stop me from my worst excesses. But what about the others out there, the denizens of the chess netherworld I used to hang out with at the Boston Chess Club? A place of which a psychiatrist friend once fondly said, "I could run a group in here." A place where I once reached over the board to shake hands and said...