Word: pulp
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...AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY Michael Chabon's serious but never somber tribute to the Golden Age of U.S. comic books leaps 600 pages of pop culture and current events in a single bound. The title characters, one a Holocaust escapee, create an imaginary pulp icon while they live through an era of real-life melodramas from the 1930s...
...Strong," about a science superman; "Promethea," starring a mythical warrior princess; "Top Ten," sort of a "Hill Street Blues" meets the Superfriends; and "Tomorrow Stories," an anthology title. At least one comes out every two weeks and Moore writes or cowrites them all. So far DC has decided to pulp two issues due to content, so you know he's doing something right...
...AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY: Michael Chabon's serious but never somber tribute to the golden age of American comic books leaps 600 pages in a single bound. The title characters create an imaginary pulp icon while they live through a vivid era of real-life melodramas from the 1930s...
...film is very well played. Willis is good as a depressed man resisting instinctive, inchoate hints that he is not living up to his uncanny potential. And Jackson's ability to play perverse intelligence gets its best outing since Pulp Fiction. Robin Wright Penn is superb as the wife almost defeated by Dunn's inarticulate withdrawals, and young Spencer Treat Clark's hopeful patience with his troubled dad is fine...
...himself as a filmmaker ever since, with James L. Brooks, the producer of both Say Anything...and Jerry Maguire, as a de facto professor. Not entirely happy with his direction of Singles in 1992, Crowe took a break and began studying the work of other filmmakers. Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, he says, taught him how to make his gonzo structure hold together. Like Brooks, Crowe resists traditional screenplay rules, instead laying out his scenes like chapters or tracks on an album...