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...attacks were and are silly--and miss the point. The novel is profoundly antislavery. Jim's search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic. As the Twain scholar Jocelyn Chadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction--a recognition that the slave had two personalities, "the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual: Jim, the father...
...Frank Miller, creator of Sin City and 300 Mark Millar, creator of Wanted Kevin Smith, director and comic-book-store owner Mike Richardson, founder of Dark Horse Comics WHAT Bone By Jeff Smith The Walking Dead By Robert Kirkman The Dark Knight Returns By Frank Miller Concrete By Paul Chadwick WHY The "fully realized adventure fantasy" is "Disney meets Moby Dick." "A chronicle of life after zombies have taken over. It should be an HBO series." "An intense, quasifuturistic, retired Batman with real-world issues." "A speechwriter is encased in concrete. Kafka meets Beauty and the Beast...
...script is by Peter Morgan, who won a plethora of prizes for The Queen and The Last King of Scotland and the Broadway play Frost Nixon, so you might expect something more than the puffy costume drama you get. Justin Chadwick, the director, is from TV, and apparently thinks that extreme closeups are as telling on the big screen as the small. No question that Portman's and Johansson's faces merit microscopic attention, but the film has a cramped feeling that turns every urgent, conspiratorial confidence into an italicized shout. That's a shame, because the movie has some...
...exploiting fans' long-distance love of the league is more than just a short-term goal. "The domestic market is a mature market," says Simon Chadwick, professor of sport business strategy and marketing at Coventry University. "We're not seeing huge growth in the retail and merchandise markets." So, while domestic attendance has climbed this season, boosting income further means pushing up ticket prices or knocking up even bigger stadiums. That, or playing in front of a new, hungry audience. Scudamore wouldn't say how much money the proposed "international round" would generate for the teams...
...trend. The NBA is aggressively marketing to a growing Chinese fan base. And long before they bagged this year's Super Bowl, the New York Giants edged the Miami Dolphins at London's Wembley Stadium last October, in the first regular season NFL game played outside the Americas. Says Chadwick, "There's a global turf war taking place in sport. It's not just about revenue generation, it's about reinforcing and preserving a competitive position." Scudamore didn't need reminding. "If we don't do it, another sport is going to come and do it unto us ... Or another...