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...Renée French's comix work make me queasy. In some cases I have not been able to finish a story by her. This may be a recommendation. Because these reactions come out of the author's artistic intent, rather than negligence or hatefulness, and are so effective, her work deserves attention. This has been made easier by the publication of French's collected works, "Marbles in my Underpants" (Oni Press...
...Wehk," indeed. "Duck," in its entirety, from the Renée French collection, 'Marbles in my Underpants...
...excess of the past. But there wasn't much of anything else to replace it. The one strong number of the night was unadorned but nonetheless weird: Bjork, doing the eerie "I've Seen It All" from "Dancer in the Dark." The Icelandic singer once made a video with "Ren and Stimpy" animator John Kricfalusi, and here she looked like a winsome cartoon character in her meringue-y dress, alternating between a childish singsong and an operatic wail. Really, it might be worth getting rid of the Best Song category altogether, since it's basically been the same five songs...
...series of meetings, he reviews the journals and explains what he wants to his staff. They chart out a script. He shoots his films sequentially, and usually takes just one shot per scene. "The movie changes as we go along," says Mori. In the film Sonatine, the actor Ren Osugi's character was supposed to die in one of the first scenes. But Beat liked his performance so much, he kept him in the film until the end. "Everyday, I thought, OK, today I am going to die," says Osugi. "I never knew what my character was going...
...luxe loose-leaf varieties. Tea houses across the country, like San Francisco's Tea & Co., Boston's Tealuxe and Washington's Teaism, are packing in sippers. Even the high church of coffee, Starbucks, is prominently displaying this year's big acquisition: Tazo Teas. Ellen Lii, the owner of Ten Ren Tea in New York City's Chinatown, used to have an almost solely Asian clientele; now a third of her customers are non-Asians. "People used to spit it out and stick out their tongues," she says of those sampling her exotic teas. "Now they know the quality...