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...movie star, he has soldiered for Steven Spielberg in Saving Private Ryan, played a character known as Pig Vomit in the Howard Stern biopic Private Parts and portrayed a cowardly orangutan in the remake of Planet of the Apes. So when he was approached to play Harvey Pekar in American Splendor, it seemed to be just business as usual--except that Pekar, the notably depressive writer of comic books about his grim life and glum times, was also going to be in the movie...
...novel and, says Giamatti, "intimidating" prospect. How many actors ever get to test their "interpretation" of a role against the real thing? But then he realized that the Pekar he was playing was "actually a character based on a character he had made of himself." Put simply, Giamatti didn't have to go looking for the real Harvey. It helped too that Pekar "seemed like he couldn't have cared less that they were making a movie about his life. It was like he came by for the free doughnuts and coffee," says Giamatti...
...Cancer Year by Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner (Four Walls Eight Windows; 1994) A pioneer in the form of autobiographical comix, Harvey Pekar and his "American Splendor" series recently became the basis for a hit independent film. This is his most serious and longest work, written in collaboration with his wife and drawn by Frank Stack, and is a deeply moving portrait of a family in crisis...
...most refreshing films of the year, American Splendor skillfully manipulates the medium of film in the same way last year’s Adaptation toyed with the basic structures of the screenplay. Splendor’s foundation is the life of chronically cantankerous graphic artist Harvey Pekar, whose series of autobiographic comic books in the ’70s and ’80s captured the innate complexities of a simple existence and ultimately revolutionized the comic book industry. These books had a number of different illustrators, and the varying styles are translated by directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert...
...most refreshing films of the year, American Splendor skillfully manipulates the medium of film in the same way last year’s Adaptation toyed with the basic structures of the screenplay. Splendor’s foundation is the life of chronically cantankerous graphic artist Harvey Pekar, whose series of autobiographic comic books in the ’70s and ’80s captured the innate complexities of a simple existence and ultimately revolutionized the comic book industry. These books had a number of different illustrators, and the varying styles are translated by directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert...