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...township hoodlum who steals a car - and the rich black couple's baby in its back seat - which shattered once and for all the naive but, among outsiders, popular notion that all South Africa's stories can be framed in terms of black and white. Another is director Michael Raeburn, who has just released Triomf, a bleak examination of a poor Johannesburg family - who happen to be white. "There's suddenly a sense in South Africa that we don't have to make films only about truth and reconciliation," says Raeburn. "We can make romantic comedies, gay movies, horror movies...
...paid the same salary as other house singers. Onstage in Vienna, she has made a specialty of mezzo-soprano roles in Mozart operas like Le Nozze di Figaro and La Clemenza di Tito, and she performs regularly in recitals and concerts around the world. Opera guru Christopher Raeburn, who was among the first to spot Kirchschlager's talent - he also helped put mezzo Cecilia Bartoli on the map - calls her Octavian in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier the finest he has heard. "I saw my first Rosenkavalier in 1938 and Angelika is the greatest." Kirchschlager nearly came to Covent Garden...
With intelligence and humor Raeburn's writing mixes up the highbrow world of 50-cent terminology with colloquialisms like "idjit," for "idiot." Never dry or academic, he often includes personal anecdotes like the absurd story of his torrid affair with "Peaches," the daughter of drug runner. Then he admits to making it all up. Then he says it's true, mixing up life and art as much as any historieta melodrama. Even the design, also by Raeburn, perfectly mimics the look of a typical historieta, right down the paper stock of cover. The man's commitment is total...
...comix criticism ever becomes sexy it will be Dan Raeburn and his "Imp" series that make it so. Mainstream cultural critics could take lessons from Raeburn's obsessive and sharp journal. This latest examination of Mexico's "underground" comix goes way beyond its seemingly obscure subject, becoming a funny, informative and thoughtful treatise that will appeal to anyone interested in world pop culture...
...found at superior comic stores and alternative media outlets or it can be ordered directly from Dan Raeburn. Write to him for details...