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...other Dark Horse manga books. Full of satisfyingly graphic violence and ectoplasmic f/x, Ito delivers not just the required amount of gore but smartly expands on such commonplace terrors as the fear of losing oneself in a relationship. Though the mostly unconnected stories lack the satisfying arc of a novel, acquiring at least one of the two volumes of Museum of Terror will fulfill any horror fan's bloodlust...
Preminger, no less a wheeler-dealer than he was a producer-director, persuaded the powers-that-were to let him shoot in the Senate, which no Hollywood film had done before. That was generous of them, and foolish, since the film (and the Allen Drury novel on which it was based) portrays Washington as almost systemically corrupt. The scandal at the heart of the plot: the news that one Senator had a homosexual relationship. Really, now, who would believe that...
...history, which means its subjects have developed an ambiguous self-consciousness about their participation in it. But that only adds depth to the films, which are now being duplicated by other hands in other countries. Watching these lives unfold has been for Apted something like "living in a Victorian novel"--one that he says "becomes more intimate and emotional" for him (as it does for us) as the years accumulate. --By Richard Schickel...
...WISH WE LIVED IN VIRGINIA IF ONLY TO VOTE FOR ALLEN Virginia Senator George Allen finally comes up with ammo against opponent James Webb: icky sex scenes from Webb's novels about the Vietnam War. They're perverted, they're gross, they're ... from a novel. Usually when politicians dismiss an attack as "fiction," they mean true lies, not, well, actual fiction. Then again, when your standard for "credible" is a possible 2008 Allen run for President...
...Naomi Campbell spent 12 hours in a police cell in London after allegedly: A) Scratching her drug counselor's face B) Encouraging other models to eat carbohydrates C) Recommending her 1996 novel, Swan, to her book group D) Threatening Underground riders at stiletto point, shouting "Now who's the Top Model...