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...this two-sided comedy, the yin is representated by Rainbow Randolph, played by Robin Williams (Good Will Hunting, Aladdin). Within the first few minutes of the film, Randolph, the host of a popular and lucrative children’s show, gets arrested by the Feds for bribery and loses his show, his friends, his company suite and eventually his sanity. M. Frank Stokes, played by Jon Stewart (Half Baked, Big Daddy), and Nora Wells, played by Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich), are the television producers charged with finding a squeaky clean replacement for Randolph...
They settle on the movie’s yang, Smoochy, a big purple rhinoceros. Smoochy is the creation of the idealistic and utterly naive Sheldon Mopes, acted by Edward Norton (Fight Club, American History X). Randolph naturally finds Mopes’ usurpation of his life intolerable and psychotically sets about plotting Smoochy’s grisly demise...
Williams and Norton, in novel roles for each actor, bring the darkness of the movie to life. We can see Williams’ Randolph struggle with unemployment, substance abuse and his sexual identity, while slipping slowly but surely into a dark chasm of insanity. On more than one occasion, Williams is let loose on an improvised, profanity-laced tirade. These tirades are reminiscent of the actor’s stand-up routines and are drop-dead funny. It is amazing that no one has let Williams play a villain before...
...this allowed him the most amount of freedom of form. So here they are, printed in chronological order with their date of publication. The collection's designer, Chris Ware (of "Jimmy Corrigan" fame), wisely makes his hand all but invisible. The strips are just black and white because William Randolph Hearst, syndicator and patron saint of the strip, ran it in the arts section of his papers rather than the color "funnies." Disappointingly Hearst also forced the strip into a strict layout beginning in the summer of '25, stifling Herriman's innovative page design...
...addressing the underlying issues of causation and prevention. Women don't need more drugs to artificially regulate their estrogen levels, or more debilitating surgery. They need to know what causes breast cancer and how to prevent it in their daughters' lifetimes. BEVERLY F. BACCELLI, PRESIDENT MASSACHUSETTS BREAST CANCER COALITION Randolph, Mass...