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...pretentiousness alerts off to honking and squealing. Dave McKean wants nothing less than to create and explore an entire cosmology. (That he wants to do it through the "lowly" comic book only adds to his challenge.) . But pretentiousness only applies to art that overreaches and fails. McKean, with remarkable talent and nerve, has succeeded in making a comic like no other. "Cages" has all the qualities of a real universe -- sprawling yet contained, chaotic yet organized, mysterious yet discernable, comedic yet serious. Assuming you have a re-enforced bookshelf, $50 doesn't seem too much to ask for both...
...about everything a person like him can have." In a strange way, Monk's exaggerated condition makes his crime-solving genius more plausible. (More so than Monk's secondary characters, who too often have a cardboard, murder-mystery-dinner-theater feel.) It makes us see that Adrian Monk's talent--and that of the many fictional sleuths who preceded him--is just a healthier manifestation of his malady: he needs to impose order on a world that inexorably tends toward entropy. Is that crazy? Not as crazy as having let this show get away to another network. --Reported by Jeanne...
Actually, he can. Though they are unabashed vultures, Texas Pacific's partners get high grades from airline insiders for their knowledge of the industry and their eye for executive talent. Before any major investment, they walk the halls of the business, checking out employee morale and even the photos on executives' walls. (They prefer folks--like US Airways' Siegel--who show off their families rather than their handshakes with politicians...
...just dive. She flies. In one of the iconic images from her award-winning 1938 film Olympia, you see nothing but a glistening airborne figure silhouetted against sky. All else - diving board, ground, pool - disappears. It's classic Riefenstahl, a brilliant piece of editing, a fine example of a talent she has applied throughout her life and work...
...walked into a lounge with pianos, and started jamming together,” Marks said. “And we didn’t know it, but the talent show people were right next door. They said, ‘You need to play together for the show...