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...Asian-American character who happened to go to Harvard. We'll call him, er, "Mr. Wu." And then I might refuse to make this "Mr. Wu" perfect--I'd give him a flaw or two, like pronounced flatulence or a fondness for reading Foucault and Derrida in his spare time...
...that, you see, everyone reading my strip--we'll call it the "The Post-Modern Mr. Wu"--would automatically assume that crikey, this strip implies that all Asians are flatulent and read European deconstructionist writings in their spare time! And they would be offended by that implication. (I know I would be.) And apologies would be in order...
...spare time, I'm a TIME movie reviewer. So you want to know how I did in the Oscar pool. Not so hot. Our neighbor Jeffrey Silver won with correct votes in 15 of the 23 categories; I had, well, fewer - though I did predict seven of the top eight winners in my Oscar-nominations story on this site last month. And since you have access to a professional critic, you'll want me to answer the burning question of Academty Awards Night: Just what is the difference between Sound and Sound Editing? I haven't a clue. Some Oscar...
...postman's, once he takes the next step and writes responses as if he were the people who hadn't answered these pleas for a little human contact. The director touches the viewer as well. He has a sense of the winsomeness of voyeuristic obsession, and the small, spare elegances of camera placement, almost worthy of the late, great Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski...
While her debut was a spare, streety affair, Eve's new CD is glossier and more ambitious. It's loaded with guest stars, including No Doubt's Gwen Stefani, reggae royalty Damian and Stephen Marley, and Eve's boyfriend, producer Stevie J. Her rapping is more controlled and confident, though she sometimes sacrifices coherence for rhythm, spouting half-thoughts and sentence fragments just to keep her flow going...