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...Lamb’s animated short “The Great Toy Robbery.” “I was really rolling in the aisles,” Gardner recalled this week. But Gardner was also drawn by Lamb’s ability to transcend escapist comedy. “It wasn’t just funny—it was really significantly on the mark in taking a look at our culture,” he said. While at Harvard, Lamb taught several Light and Communications workshops that influenced a number of Harvard undergraduates who would later prove...
...office TV set for a break, they tended to watch Lebanese music videos and Egyptian sitcoms. These days, they almost always watch the news, usually on one of the many Arabic channels that offer endless images of death and desperation in Iraq. So grim is the mood that even escapist entertainment provides no relief. "The news is our life," says Rashid, one of my Iraqi co-workers. "And our life is the news." The sobering reality for the Bush Administration is that it's becoming harder to persuade Iraqis that either one is going to get much better...
...outside Palm Springs. But if they had peered through the dense row of tamarisk trees that shield the 200-acre estate from the gaze of outsiders, they might have discovered that Mel Haber's ideal of a sleepy Palm Springs area is fading fast. Progress is intruding upon the escapist desert haven of the wealthy...
...Black Hole) with superhero/pulp auteur Frank Miller (Sin City) and novelist-turned-superhero-comics writer Brad Meltzer (Identity Crisis), who sat next to comic autobiographer and movie celebrity Harvey Pekar (American Splendor.) Thanks to Pekar's irrepressible personality, things got a little warm when he denounced superhero books as "escapist" and worthless when there were more important things to spend your energy on like "getting Bush out of office." Meltzer later gave an impassioned and reasonable argument for regarding all comic genres on a continuum rather than a hierarchy. As both he and Miller explained the influence of the tragedy...
It’s no coincidence that these escapist stories are so popular with our generation. Their moral clarity and message of hope (dashed with realism) is the exact remedy for the confusing, threatening climate we live...