Word: trolling
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...boiler room, Kamagi, a six-armed troll, keeps stern watch over dozens of soot-ball slaves--cute vermin, thrilled when Chihiro shows up to lighten their work load. Ren, a scrubwoman, offers Chihiro the weary wisdom of the eternal underclass. The child's best hope for fleeing Yubaba on the undersea railroad is young Haku, a boy who can take on the shape of a dragon. When Chihiro and this beautiful beast take to the sky, they express the most elevated forms of teamwork and puppy love...
...Troll down the endless list of Emmy nominations (I haven't finished yet, but I think I may have been nominated for an Emmy) and you find some of the real treats. "Survivor" will square off against TLC's "Trading Spaces" in a "special" category for reality programming. Another reality category (Outstanding Nonfiction Program (Reality)) shows how brilliant and diverse the much-maligned genre has become: "American High," "Frontier House," "Project Greenlight," "The Osbournes," "Taxicab Confessions" and "Trauma: Life in the ER." The midseason comedy gem "Andy Richter Controls the Universe" got a writing nomination while "Six Feet Under," weirdly...
...newly-arrived volume three (Eros/Fantagraphics Books; 112pp.; $16.95) immediately sets itself apart from ordinary porn by dispensing with any sex on the cover. Instead Al Columbia depicts what looks like the aftermath of an orgy, with a well-dressed troll cleaning his plate of what I am sure is chocolate frosting. It's typical of these smart artist's often surprising approach to the main subject. Unencumbered by pretension and unified by a central theme that everyone can relate to, the series has become one of the best anthologies published today. The twenty-odd stories of each volume...
...Perhaps best was the gut-busting Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson taped intro to the Costume Design award, with Stiller, dressed as a dwarf from The Lord of the Rings, radiating his patented passive-aggressive anger ("I look like a freakin' ZZ Top troll boy"). It was such a good piece, in fact, that it could have come from the MTV Movie Awards, which the Academy could still learn a thing or a hundred from...
...Jack E. Davis. $16.00 Postmodernism has come to children's books. There were at least three titles in 2001 that deconstructed nursery rhymes. This is the most deliciously icky, populated with comically dyspeptic characters and the cleverest plays on the original rhymes ("Young King Cole was a terrible troll:/ He washed his feet in the toilet bowl"). Warning: There are some lines parents probably will not want to hear over and over...