Word: noland
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...Without having seen any of the work I can bet that certain debuts will be worth reading by virtue of who publishes them. Alternative Comics goes nuts with three new artists in October. "Shpilkes" by Frederick Noland, "Paper Theater," by Ben Catmull, and "Dirty Boxes," by Jacob Weinstein all have the blessing of the Xeric grant, a fund that supports new comix artists. In September watch for the mono-named Jason's "Hey, Wait..." from Fantagraphics. Highwater Books also has some new-comers in October: Mat Brinkman's "Teratoid Heights" promises documentary studies of fictional lifeforms and Brian Chippendale...
...Hanks is back on a killer beach, this time alone. The soldiers hitting the Normandy sands in Saving Private Ryan faced grim death, but it might come in the arms of a buddy. Chuck Noland, the FedEx manager stranded on a Pacific island after a plane crash, has no one to talk to, to bray at, as he did to his harried underlings at work--no one to shore up his resolve or share his desperation. Well, all right. Chuck is a doer. So he will fashion tools, clothing, shelter; find food, draw cave paintings, make fire. He will replicate...
...Hanks is back on a killer beach, and this time he's alone. The soldiers hitting the Normandy sands in "Saving Private Ryan" faced grim death, but it might come in the arms of a buddy. Chuck Noland, the FedEx manager stranded on a Pacific island after a plane crash, has no one to talk to, to bray at, as he did to his harried underlings at work - no one to shore up his resolve or share his desperation. Well, all right. Chuck is a doer. So he will fashion tools, clothing, shelter; find food, draw cave paintings, make fire...
...crew of Cast Away is shooting "the moment." Hanks' emaciated, exposure-ravaged character, Chuck Noland, fleeing the island on which he's been marooned for four years after a plane crash, pounds through the surf and raises the sail: the wall of a portable toilet that washed ashore. (The sight, I am assured, is meant to be inspiring.) "There isn't much acting going on today," apologizes director Robert Zemeckis, who teamed with Hanks on 1994's Forrest Gump. It's more like boxing. Hanks clambers, panting, onto the command ship Aftershock, barking, "Big ones! Those were great!" Like...
...watch playbacks--a tight shot of a drenched Hanks rolling his eyes--Zemeckis offers another. "It's Moses! You're talking to God!" Hanks laughs at his woebegone image, his voice dropping to a thunder-of-Jehovah bass: "'Damn you!' That's Chuck Heston, baby! Chuck Heston Noland...