Word: slackers
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...would be too bad if the ambiguity and sadness of "Summer Blonde" scared you off. Adrian Tomine won't entertain you with a lot of snappy tricks. He's on to something that other comix artists haven't captured - a slacker generation growing older but not wiser...
Zevin's theme is the agony of becoming an adult, a condition finally afflicting the generation formerly known as X. In each of the book's 24 short chapters, Zevin, who is 37, confesses to having done something no self-respecting slacker would be caught dead doing: "I played golf," "I joined a health club," "I take pride in my lawn." To his disgust, he is turning into one of those people "with mortgages, health insurance [and] special sheds to store their garbage cans." There are some easy targets here--Zevin goes after such battered bull's-eyes as psychotherapy...
...from Oppenheimer Funds in which most Gen X women said they'll accumulate 30 pairs of shoes before they rack up $30,000 for retirement. But some newer research has emerged to show that Gen Xers--the 46 million Americans born between 1965 and 1977--don't deserve their slacker image...
...GREG THE BUNNY Humans and puppets coexist on the Fox show, which features Seth Green as the pal of a slacker rabbit fond of taking baths...
...Hazy Life, a loving indulgence of slacker society by first-time director Yamashita Nobuhiro, strips away all visual pyrotechnics and simply narrates the relationship between two homeless men who never went to school and whom society cares nothing about. Their one indulgence is to dub and star in adult videos. Nihilistic, simple and moving, it does what the other Asian fare at Hong Kong's festival didn't: it tells a story...