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...Nobody has picked up any of my quotes yet. In fact I'm having a hard time getting the studios to plunk down $50,000 for the newspaper. But no one on my staff is doing it for the money. Like Gene Shalit and Joel Siegel before us, we just get a big kick out of seeing our names in the paper. That's what drives people like us into this business. That and the free popcorn...
There's enough satisfying Redstone philosophy to keep you flipping pages, although the book wastes too much time dropping names from Bill Clinton to gangster Bugsy Siegel without dishing dirt or at least providing the juicy insider stuff Redstone surely has. He seems intent on not making enemies, professing friendship with onetime adversaries Barry Diller, a loser in the fight for Paramount, and Jerry Levin, whom he sued for cable access. (Levin is CEO of AOL Time Warner, which publishes TIME...
During this time period legendary creators like Jerry Siegel, Bob Kane and Stan Lee took the fledging industry in their hands and gave it a firm foundation on which everything since has been built. These people were the pioneers and visionaries responsible for creating the Supermans, Batmans and Spidermans who have graced so many pages over the years, characters who have leaped out of the panels and into our cultural heritage...
...graphic comic-book imagery, Chabon writes that the classic superhero "had fallen beneath the whirling thresher blades of changing tastes." By the '50s, Kavalier and Clay are not only old hat but also targets of a congressional committee investigating the effects of comic books on children. Then, like Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the real-life team that begat Superman, Chabon's fictional duo lose the rights to their character in a dispute with cutthroat publishers. Screwing the talent is an old story, but never before told with as much imagination, verve and affection as can be found...
...this moment that social protest seems compelling, even necessary for them," Siegel says...