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...they recall schoolboy crushes, ice cream trucks and stickball, their reminiscences also conjure up a safer, simpler world. Maybe that's why what began as a video scrapbook of their joint 70th birthday celebration wound up an award-winning film, The Bronx Boys, which has appeared on Cinemax, played at a few film festivals and begun appearing on PBS stations this fall. Carl Reiner is the host of the film, which was edited and directed by Benjamin Hershleder, a filmmaker in his 30s. "They have something special, these 15 guys," Hershleder says...
Like the dreamy teen of her debut feature Somersault, who makes a scrapbook collage of Mt. Fuji above a forest of girlie-magazine nudes, Cate Shortland has an eye for kooky detail. At her local caf? in Sydney's Bondi, a bowl of green marinated pears first captures her imagination, then a seaplane that seems to skim the nearby headland. "It's so low - it's amazing," the 36-year-old says with girlish wonder. "Must be going to land on the harbor." Then the firm hand of the director takes over. "I was wondering if we should move...
...farmers. But there's a lot more to the film than its plot. Shortland, who studied fine arts at Sydney University before going on to graduate from the Australian Film Television and Radio School, gives an impression of teenage life as textured and poetic as Heidi's scrapbook. Stones thrown into a lake cut to the sound of snooker balls. Heidi watches her stern new lover throw water across his ute's icy windscreen and her heart melts. Rejected by Joe, she goes to an alpine club and watches revelers in an indoor pool tumble as if in sexual free...
...comix had plenty to choose from. Proof of a rising tide lifting all boats, the indy publishers I spoke to were enjoying brisk and often record-breaking sales. Montreal's Drawn & Quarterly declared it the best year they ever had at San Diego, with Adrian Tomine's just-released "Scrapbook," a collection of ephemera by the former wunderkind, selling the best. The Seattle-based Fantagraphics reduced its table by half this year but have tentatively announced a bigger profit than ever with Dan Clowes' latest issue of "Eightball" #23, their top-seller. Georgia's Top Shelf had a remarkable eight...
Office for Mac, priced at $399 (students and teachers can get it for $149, and customers upgrading from a previous version pay $239), is packed with other handy features. A scrapbook lets you drop Web-page clippings, photos, logos, even e-mail snippets into a space that automatically saves these tidbits for future use in any application. A notebook view in Word simulates the look of ruled binder paper and lets you flag text with eight different colored icons. And there are more than 100 new special effects for your PowerPoint presentations...