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...takes a village to raise a star. In this case, the star is newcomer BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD, 22, whose dad is director and former child star Ron. And the village is The Village, M. Night Shyamalan's spooky new movie about a small town surrounded by creatures of the woods. Howard, who's getting buzz five months before the film's release, stars alongside Adrien Brody, Joaquin Phoenix and Sigourney Weaver. "All hell breaks loose," says Shyamalan, who cast Howard in the lead after seeing her in an off-Broadway performance of As You Like It, thus giving hope...
...stories starring the novel's Houdini-like superhero. The first issue includes the Chabon-written origin of the Escapist, with art by Eric Wight, along with several tongue-in-cheek tales by other comic-book writers and artists. Each one evokes a different period of the medium's history: Howard Chaykin turns in a '50s-style hard-boiled story of a red-baiting Senator with a diaper fetish; another, by Jim Starlin, flashes back to a trippy "cosmic" look of the '70s. The Escapist is sometimes amusing, but it lacks the emotional ambition of its literary source. --By Andrew...
DIED. BART HOWARD, 88, who wrote Fly Me to the Moon; in Carmel, N.Y. The song, whose original title was In Other Words, became popular in 1960 after Peggy Lee sang it on The Ed Sullivan Show, though Frank Sinatra's version is better known. Howard, who had been writing cabaret songs for two decades, said, "It took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes...
...political images--men kissing other men on the steps of San Francisco's city hall, Saddam being pulled from a hole, John Kerry hugging a man he saved in Vietnam, Janet Jackson's exposed breast at the Super Bowl, George W. Bush prancing prematurely in his flight suit, Howard Dean screaming, Bush bringing turkey to the troops. The chaotic rush of images--and the President's constant invocation of incendiary words like war and evil--suggests a portentous, emotional year in the offing. It is possible that the passions raised by such images will lead to an intense national debate...
Then again, voters in the early Democratic primaries, a perversely serious minority of the electorate, rejected the passionate Howard Dean in favor of John Kerry, a candidate nuanced to the point of paralysis. In the dictionary, passion is defined as "suffering" first and then as "emotion ... as opposed to reason." Kerry isn't emotional, and he certainly isn't addicted to the explicit. In the year of The Passion, he stands as a quixotic reproach to the prevailing sensationalism, an unintentional rebel against our shock-a-minute culture...