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...talent, he didn't. Two: Wood's cluelesss movies played in theaters; Bettie's were sold under the counter, mailed in plain brown wrappers. Yet she has been elevated to pulp goddess. The beatification process began in 1980, when artist Dave Stevens created a Bettie character in his graphic novel The Rocketeer. Jennifer Connelly gave her full-figured life in the 1990 movie version, and the cult was under way. A talking Bettie Page tattoo (voiced by Jodie Foster) anchored an episode of The X Files. Robert Foster, in his book The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About the Queen...
...same reaction as Jackson. This, they thought, is the kind of exuberant, self-aware tastelessness that can unite everyone at the summer box office. Not only did they demand that the title stay, they wanted violence, profane monologues from Jackson--the Olivier of the F bomb--and graphic snakebites. And they made sure the filmmakers knew it--not through any organized e-mail campaign but with bizarre spasms of Snakes-inspired creativity. "We were fortunate," says director David Ellis. "We had the ability to listen to the audience before we finished, so we could totally deliver exactly what they dream...
...universes, Gaiman knows the importance of detail - and it is his ability to commute between them and the real world that has expanded his fan base far beyond the fantasy-fiction clichés of teen goths and pimply geeks. Whether through film adaptations of his best-selling fiction, graphic novels, children's books or screenplays, Gaiman is a hot commodity these days. Today he's in London for just 24 hours to check on the progress of Wolves and visit the set of Stardust, the film version of his 1997 romantic fairy fantasy, which director-producer Matthew Vaughn (Layer...
...sheds new light on the history of early Christianity, and then the fishapod, a pre-historic creature thought to bridge the evolution from fin to feet. And this week sees the re-appearance of another, less world-historical but still woefully forgotten "missing link" in the evolution of the graphic novel medium. Kings in Disguise (W.W. Norton; 184 pages; $17), by James Vance and Dan Burr, will finally be reprinted in an affordable, attractive and widely-available paperback edition. A remarkably sensitive and engrossing book from the late 1980s, when the medium got its first - short-lived - shot at mainstream...
...medium's lost treasures, James Vance and Dan Burr's Kings in Disguise is a graphic novel in the truest sense, creating a fictional world with strong characters, Great Themes and literary ambition. It deserves to be read by anyone with an interest in both history and great comix storytelling...