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...real life and your co-stars in The Break Up. Spill it. Everybody is rooting for them to be a big item, and that's a nice reflection on their work. But thanks to the scrutiny around them, I've come to appreciate that I live a fairly normal suburban life...
...movies that use multiple, seemingly unrelated storylines weaving across each other or culminating in one climactic event. Graphic novels have also started to explore this technique. Earlier this year Dan Clowes' impressive Ice Haven (a repackaging of his comic book Eightball #22) bounced among the denizens of a suburban town. The latest book to use this style, Tricked (Top Shelf Productions; $20), by Alex Robinson, comes from an author who works in large scale. His first graphic novel, Box Office Poison (2001), spent over 500 pages examining the lives of a group of 20-somethings living in New York. Tricked...
...rising above its own ridiculousness. “Prison Break” fits the latter bill. In the past two episodes alone, Fox River Penitentiary inmates and Fox Network viewers have seen a tabby cat executed, a molested teenager hang himself, Secret Service operatives gun down a pair of suburban step-parents, a guard hump a secretary in the break room (to table-shaking effect), and a mobster get stabbed in the eye with a shattered light bulb. On Monday night, in a particularly laughable scene, we found out from his psychiatrist that the show’s hero Michael...
...paying gig requires time and patience. That is particularly true for older performers, who despite the upsurge in their numbers may encounter age discrimination in comedy clubs, where twentysomethings and thirtysomethings predominate. Comedy teacher and author Carter advises hopefuls to take part regularly in open-mike nights in smaller, suburban venues as a way to become known to club managers...
...type of mild hybrid system next year, and may extend it to the entire product line. Next up is General Motors, which plans to roll out a hybrid version of the Saturn Vue next summer and offer hybrid versions of lumbering sport-utility vehicles such as the Chevrolet Suburban by 2007. Volkswagen and Porsche also have announced plans to introduce hybrids before the end of the decade...