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TOKYOPOP's big release of the new year will be the first volume of Natsuki Takaya's "Fruits Basket," coming out this month. One of the biggest-selling shojo titles in Japan, it features Tohru Honda, an orphaned junior-high student who discovers that the cutest boy in school turns into a rat whenever hugged by a member of the opposite sex. Far from repulsed, she moves in with him, as a housekeeper, and discovers an entire family cursed to turn into animals at the most awkward times...
...surprisingly big seller for TOKYOPOP is "Gravitation" by Maki Murakami. It falls into a splinter genre of shojo called shonen-ai, translated literally as "boy-love." Though targeted at girls, shonen-ai features the romantic relationship between two males, in this case between high-schooler and aspiring musician Shuichi and a slightly older romance novelist named Eiri Yuki. Though it features a passionate kiss, "Gravitation" and other shonen-ai never get sexually explicit. The appeal for girls seems to be in looking at two pretty boys entering into an untouchable romance. Though quite popular in Japan, very little shonen...
...It’s a tremendous opportunity,” Ventura said. “If you asked a boy from southern Minnesota if he would one day attend Harvard, he’d laugh...
...visualized by artist Gary Baseman (whose illustrations have appeared in TIME) and voiced and sung by Nathan Lane, Spot is a creature of indefatigable show-biz sizzle. In this expansion of the Saturday-morning show, Spot follows his boy Leonard to Florida, where Spot means to submit to the genetic-engineering experiments of Dr. Ivan Krank (Kelsey Grammer). The script, by Cheers vets Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, has a whirligig wit, and 11 songs crammed into its 67 minutes: that's more melodic content than in most Broadway musicals...
Moving on. Hollywood Animal alternates chapters about Eszterhas' life in Hollywood with an account of his traumatic childhood. Eszterhas, 59, was born in Hungary during World War II. His first memory is of a little boy who drowned in a cesspool in a refugee camp. When Eszterhas was 5, his parents brought him to the U.S., where he grew up dirt poor and delinquent in the Hungarian section of Cleveland. His father edited a Hungarian-language newspaper, while at home his mother went slowly mad--she believed the electrical outlets were shooting rays at her. All this is affectingly told...