Word: splendor
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Harvey Pekar - blue-collar scholar, retired file clerk, television celebrity, journalist, observer of life and creator of the 25 year-old comic series "American Splendor" - can now add "movie star" to his c.v. "American Splendor" started in 1976 as a self-published autobiographical comic book that chronicled the author's living and working in Cleveland. Disarmingly low-key and driven mostly by the working-class intellectual author's irascible but entertaining personality, "American Splendor" uses a medium associated mostly with sensational escapism for odes on the frustrations, triumphs and mundanities of ordinary life...
...under one roof. Consequently it becomes like a dense star that pulls creators of every genre into its orbit. Fans can go crazy trying to find them all, from the venerable Will Eisner (who was previewing his latest book "Fagin the Jew") to Harvey Pekar (stumping for the "American Splendor" movie) to Alex Ross (previewing the new hardcover of his painted superhero art) to Michael Chabon (previewing his comic "The Escapist," based on the character in "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.") The number of creators easily reached several thousand. Marvel Comics, perhaps demonstrating just how much their comics...
...epitome of sci-fi gadgetry. In Minority Report, Tom Cruise, playing a cop who fights crimes that are to take place in the future, gestures into the air like an orchestra conductor wearing a space glove--only he's calling up computer images that float before him in holographic splendor...
...unspoken, perhaps unconscious axiom of criticism that optimistic works are dismissed as sentimental, while pessimistic works are pronounced profound. Some other time we'll munch on the reasons that critics, nestled in the comfort of their intellectual splendor, overvalue works that say life stinks. For now, we'll note that any serious film with a bright or dewy eye runs the risk of exile from the received canon of dark and Sturmy cinema...
...There's also a pint-size replica in his yard of the pink sandstone splendor of Banteay Srei, and Dy has begun work on his own version of the multi-faced towers of Bayon. But it's his Angkor Wat that takes center stage, drawing the most oohs and aahs from the trickle of visitors who each fork out $1 for a look...