Word: superheroism
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...past eight years Michael Chabon, who is probably the premiere prose stylist--the Updike--of his generation, has written a novel about superhero comics; a fantasy tale; a mystery starring an old man who may or may not be Sherlock Holmes; and a pulp crime book set in an alternate time. (That last would be The Yiddish Policemen's Union, about a murder in a what-if world where Alaska becomes a homeland for the Jews, or as they're called there, "the frozen Chosen.") Chabon is still a literary novelist, but he's having a hot, star-crossed flirtation...
...There's an assumption in Hollywood that the western is a homeless genre," says Mangold, "that it doesn't have a built-in audience. The adults who might want to go don't go to the movies, and the young ones are locked into the superhero world." Mangold also sees "a Hollywood bias against the America between New York and L.A. The movie industry is basically built serving 14-year-old males, and they aren't interested in rural America...
...Superhero for Sudan It's been said that man's inhumanity to man is not hatred but indifference [July 9]. Thank God for people like France's Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, who bring the genocide and horrors of Darfur to the forefront. Men and women like him are the true superheroes of our universe. Ray Westbrook, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
...Superhero for Sudan...
...like they're 12. Now girls are beginning to find role models in women with real talent, careers, confidence." And who needs the Japanese market? Mori is now being considered for a role in the hit NBC series Heroes as the love interest of one of the show's superhero characters. She may well become Japan's new Wonder Woman...