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...Virgin Mary with elephant dung that enraged New York City's mayor Rudy Giuliani when it turned up in "Sensation." But the place that put Adjaye on the map was the so-called Elektra house, built for a pair of conceptual artists in the Whitechapel neighborhood that Jack the Ripper once prowled. It's plain at first sight that this is no cozy cottage. It's more like an urban battlement, a place that turns its face from what is mostly an unsightly street. It has no windows on the street side, where it presents instead a solid wall...
...scour the texts for Jungian archetypes and trace the folkloric roots of hinkypunks, mischievous creatures who mislead travelers into bogs. "I think she's a terrific writer," says Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of 80 children's books, who has read the first book. "And she's a ripper-offer, like me. She has taken from some of the best English literature and cooked up her own stew. It's brilliant, and I have every intention of reading the others; otherwise children I know will kill...
...plot, which travels from Peking to Nevada, New York and London in search of a sacred scroll?but never makes it to Shanghai?is serviceable. The script contrives to convene every Victorian celebrity, from Jack the Ripper and Arthur Conan Doyle to Queen Victoria herself. The stars have an easy rapport, and share it graciously with Singapore TV-diva Fann Wong, who's quite appealing as Chon's sister. It's all disposable, second-rate fun. But at least director David Dobkin had the bright idea to let Chan, for the first time in a U.S. film, supervise the action...
Pottinger writes romance novels. When she was in college, she trekked to Kendall to feed her paperback bodice-ripper habit. “I wasn’t much of partier,” she says. “It was how I unwound...
...Depression-era gangster picture "Road to Perdition" earned over $20 million during its opening weekend, continuing the trend of successful movie adaptations of non-superhero graphic novels. Last year's quirky "Ghost World," based on the Dan Clowes book, and "From Hell," the Jack-the-Ripper story by Alan Moore, both became box-office hits. Originally published in 1998 by the DC Comics imprint Paradox Press, "Road to Perdition" (304 pp.; $13.95), written by Max Allan Collins and drawn by Richard Piers Rayner, has been reprinted to coincide with the release of the movie, directed by Sam Mendes and starring...