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...DUNGEON, VOL.2, "THE BARBARIAN PRINCESS" By Lewis Trondheim & Joann Sfar Part duex of the Dungeon series continues the horror and fantasy spoof by two of France's best cartoonists...
...make matters worse, the narrator even makes fun of Charlotte, the novel’s principled princess. When drunk for the first time, Charlotte starts to say something, forgets it, and the narrator dryly explains: “the truth was, she couldn’t remember whuh wuz funny, dude.” Assuming for the sake of argument that Charlotte is believable, open contempt of her foibles defeats the very purpose of her creation. If Wolfe is siding with the reader in critiquing Charlotte, he shouldn’t present her as the objective witness to college pandemonium...
...behind. The figures for all - the most common childhood cancer - illustrate the point. Some 80% of child all patients will be cured; but the same disease will be beaten in only about 40% of cases involving 15- to 25-year-olds. Says Dr. Catherine Cole, a cancer specialist at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in Perth: "We desperately need to learn more about how to treat (adolescents) effectively...
...bandwagon. The upcoming The Ghost Inside?at $600,000, the country's most expensive scary movie?transplants the single-mom-in-a-creepy-apartment formula to an impersonal, rapidly modernizing mainland city. Despite the tight budget, its cast includes Beijing heartthrob Liu Ye and Taiwanese TV-drama princess Barbie Hsu. For now, though, the hotbed of Asian dread remains Japan, where Ichise presides over his assembly line of scares. In the next two years he plans to release at least four more Japanese ghost movies, including one each by Nakata and Shimizu. "The day after I announced the new movies...
...DIED. PRINCESS ALICE, DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER, 102, aunt of Queen Elizabeth II; in London. Born Lady Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott, daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch, she married Prince Henry, brother of the Queen?s father King George VI, in 1935. Though her husband died in 1974, she kept up a busy schedule of official royal duties and charitable work into...