Yeah, they pretty clearly did not want to discuss Citizen Kane or give anyone any reason to think about that movie at all. The place is a state park now, I'm not sure who technically runs the tours but the employees do sound more like Hearst employees than representatives of the state of California.
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And Daniel Clowes got his start drawing for Cracked in the '80s.
I can't believe no one mentioned that Nelson van Alden's last rant was totally accurate: the last thing he did really was to make justice rain down on Al Capone… in the form of a federal agent's blood and brain matter.
I'm catching up with this super late, but my 2 cents about Mabel: I think she helps to explain Nucky's likable wiseass side, whereas most everyone else in the flashbacks contributed to his cynical bastard side. In the transition from the dead serious kid-Nucky to the livelier Marc Pickering version, you can see how…
Judging by everything the creators have said about the character, I think you're definitely supposed to feel that way; trading in Avon/Stringer for Marlo is something no one would want, except Marlo. He's less interesting, he's got no life, and he's more dangerous… but due to the way the business is going, that's the…
Yeah, and I thought saving that little bit of revealed emotion till the end was more effective than if we'd seen it from the start. It suggested that the only way he had been able to keep up the emotionless facade so seamlessly was to have enough already-established power and loyal people around him that the…
Unfortunately, "skinny Steve" looked very realistic to me because that's just about exactly how I looked between the ages of 14 and 25. It's possible that I was a poorly composited piece of CGI.
Well, it's also been used by non-insufferable people who 1. have read a whole lot of Comics Journal pieces where critics and artists talked a lot about E.C. Segar or Milton Caniff, 2. feel that that got a little repetitive, and 3. think other people will understand their reference to this and take a valuable point…
Also, I saw him interviewed on a book tour a couple years ago and he was still very sharp and funny (though pretty deaf).
"The recent resurgence in mini-comics" - what do you mean by "recent"?
I can tentatively recommend Feiffer's autobiography, Backing Into Forward— I was oddly not too crazy about the writing and some things were covered repetitively while others were kind of skimmed over, but just hearing about the process by which a Depression kid becomes a '60s hipster god was pretty interesting,…
It would hardly be the first time that an artist thought of something as a frustrating labor of non-love even though other people liked it a lot more. Nor would it be the first time Crumb has said over-the-top self-deprecating things. Taking an artist's self-criticism as gospel truth when it happens to match one's own…
Oh that was her! Cool. I'm pretty sure I saw her early on in a tiny black-box stage production of "Feiffer's People", which I didn't like much (JF's dialogue needs really sharp timing like Nichols & May, it doesn't work when people try to direct it as either naturalism or modern sketch comedy) but I remember her being…
I'm extremely glad I missed whatever previous discussion went on around the term "pap pap". It's not a coinage that deserves to catch on; in its original context it was just a tossed-off remark by Frank Santoro that was immediately followed by a smiley face, he wasn't actually saying that people who appreciate great…
She should've said "Don't be alarmed, ladies and gentlemen. Those chains are made of chrome steel!"
Well, at least in the comics, the Brujeria was a fairly small isolated group, despite being crazy powerful. They weren't a religious tradition so much as a very long-running conspiracy (and a severely patriarchal one - no women allowed). Moore's source for pretty much all of this was the not necessarily reliable Bruce…
Besides what Mr. Greene said, I'm not sure what you mean by "feels a little neat"; I mean, directing an unusual movie that didn't make any money (and that wasn't well liked by critics at the time, either) has never been a good way to get more opportunities to do that. And Laughton already had a successful acting and…
That clip is only half of the story, though— later in the same documentary, Cave's bandmate provides further detail about Simone's backstage prep before that show. "Can I get you anything, Dr. Simone?" "(growly voice) I want some champagne, some cocaine, and some sausages. Can you take care of that?" Apparently, he…
Almost all of the ones on the show were like that, but they had started to set up a storyline where some of the shape-changing variety seemed to be much smarter than average and weren't necessarily seeing eye to eye with Skynet any more. This was one of those, and it had a strategic reason for doing what it was doing,…