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...early 1970s comic and cartoon that inspired Devilman, a CGI-heavy movie due out in the fall, helped create a template for the fanged and tentacled demons that populate Japanese pop culture today. Devilman is the alter ego of mild-mannered schoolboy Akira Fudo, who becomes possessed by a long-dormant demonic force. The story details his struggle to bring that force under control and use it to fight other, more malevolent, demons. Like Casshern, virtually every frame in Devilman blends live action and computer graphics. Judging by segments that have been completed, Devilman will be a lush, Gothic-flavored...
...Eight tables and countless cups later, he is red faced, still screaming chants and bear-hugging an unfortunate reporter. When dancing girls in short skirts and blond wigs start jiggling to ear-numbing Korean pop music, the tireless Kim, 59, cavorts in a mosh pit of drunken workers near a makeshift stage. Later he ascends the stage himself, microphone in hand, to croon out a popular oldie called Nui (Sister). "We love our CEO," says Kim Young Kee, an LG executive vice president. "He shows us a good time...
...TAICHUNG In Taiwan's third-largest city, the Chung Yo department store boasts 13 themed toilets, incorporating everything from pop-art and Baroque motifs to toilets designed to resemble a jungle or aquarium. Each toilet cost a cool $30,000 to install...
Politicians tend to campaign somewhere in mid-mainstream. In the past election, voters could choose between a candidate who called himself born again, argued for more federal funding for faith-based programs and promised to consider in policymaking the pop mantra "WWJD: What Would Jesus Do?" That candidate was Al Gore. Or they could vote for Bush, who was born to East Coast Episcopalian parents, was sent to Presbyterian Sunday school in Texas, converted when he married a Methodist, and was renewed in faith thanks to the evangelical witness of Billy Graham--a fairly typical American spiritual journey...
From an early age, he was searching. Wylie Pitman, a shopkeeper from round the way in Greenville, had a piano and a jukebox, and he used to invite young Ray to play them both. On the jukebox, Ray would hear blues from Tampa Red, jazz from Count Basie and pop from Nat King Cole; other times he listened to the box's country or classical selections. On some days, Pitman let Ray bang the keys of his piano. "That's it, sonny, that's it!" Pitman would cry, when Ray was on to something good. At 7, Charles enrolled...