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...Lakers come into this NBA season with Shaq, Kobe, Karl Malone and Gary Payton. Is there any chance at all that this team won’t make the playoffs? Maybe if Kobe doesn’t play and the plague hits Shaq and the Glove. Otherwise, you can pencil them in, just like every other year...
...ones who go back to work after they've won the lottery--those people are crazy. Gary Larson, who abruptly quit producing the Far Side cartoon nearly nine years ago, has no intention of ever picking up a drawing pencil again. This is the first time in months he has seen his downtown Seattle office, which his business-manager wife and assistant use to filter the paperwork needed to pump out Far Side greeting cards. Larson, whose surreal, pothead-meets-scientist take on humans' overestimation of their species made cartoons cool, prefers his nondrawing, noncelebrated existence. "Life is good...
...punches in presenting the artist in all his ill-tempered glory. At other times, the actual Pekar appears in the form of footage from David Letterman appearances or to comment on the film’s production. At other times, he is shown as no more than a pencil sketch. These interpretations intermingle to give a fully realized portrayal of this oddly compelling figure. By maximizing the potential of the motion picture art form, Splendor manages at once to revel in its constructions and transcend them...
...reviews were rather cooler. Costa's nude-colored knits, tight pencil skirts and thigh-high shorts lacked conviction. Will the new kid be given time to learn the peculiar fashion art of impersonating the master while making a name of his own? The larger question is, Can fashion, in its own period of transition and social change, manage to keep from coming apart at the seams...
...punches in presenting the artist in all his ill-tempered glory. At other times, the actual Pekar appears in the form of footage from David Letterman appearances or to comment on the film’s production. At other times, he is shown as no more than a pencil sketch. These interpretations intermingle to give a fully realized portrayal of this oddly compelling figure. By maximizing the potential of the motion picture art form, Splendor manages at once to revel in its constructions and transcend them...