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...could have retired to the golf course and the bedroom (after having four children with Dixie Lee, he produced a family of three with Grant). Instead he took the role of Frank Elgin - a has-been musical-comedy performer whom drink has crushed into pulp - in George Seaton's film of Clifford Odets' "The Country Girl." Grace Kelly is his wife, ground down by drab devotion. William Holden is the Broadway director who wants to give him a last chance at stardom and self-respect...
...cube resonated with a public largely fed up with the mindless action-heavy fare of 1980s Hollywood, and by independent-film standards it became a blockbuster. It also cleared a path from the art house to the mall and launched a brigade of indie and indie-minded movies--from Pulp Fiction to American Beauty--into the mainstream...
...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...