Word: undertow
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...ROUGH SEAS: Ellen Lindner's "Undertow" in "Scheherazade...
...life story about a perv who stalks a pair of roommates. Nearly every woman has some kind of scary harassment story but seeing one in comix form still comes as a shock. Another commonality in "Scheherazade" is a greater interest in exploring the nuances of relationships. Ellen Lindner's "Undertow," with the look and feel of a comix "Mildred Pierce," paints a noirish portrait of two girlfriends in the 1950s. The book's strongest piece, Gabrielle Bell's "One Afternoon," combines the yin/yang of a relationship study with a compact, twisty plot. Drawn with a simple clarity, it brilliantly updates...
...honestly, who really cares. The best American films of the year thus far (Undertow, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I Heart Huckabees) will likely be ignored, though the Academy might throw a screenwriting bone to the last two. The more important thing to discuss, is how we can change the Academy Awards. For this year, there is one clear and present option: Best Jude Law Performance. Though my appeals to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to institute this annual award may not be successful, let’s assume that it will...
...deform-ity and magic are the stuff of life. Despite his low profile to date in Britain, Rhodes' fabulist books have been translated into nine languages. And Timoleon Vieta is a very un-British novel. Not that it matters. It is funny, beguiling and sentimental, with a dark undertow that will tug at the memory at least until Granta publishes its next list in 2013. Rhodes won't be on it because he'll be too old. But here's hoping he keeps finding a reason...
...chase the well-fed celebrities to their waiting limousines. What the two men had in common was anger. While it may be true that Warhol used to kiss the Manolo Blahnik boots of the stars, in some of his Polaroids of the famous at play you sense the same undertow of loathing you find in his silk-screened portraits of Marilyn and Liz. Likewise with Galella. His pictures can remind you of Susan Sontag's observation: "To photograph someone is a sublimated murder...