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...comic-book superhero Batman was the ultimate stuffed shirt, a crimefighter so morally upright that he would wait for a red light to change before following criminals across the street. In a bizarre world of Penguins and Riddlers, Batman was the perfect straight-man. He never realized how fundamentally weird Gotham city was, and that's why the show was funny...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Comic Book Justice Strikes Again | 6/30/1989 | See Source »

...psychodrama with the force of myth. He creates a Gotham City that looms like a rube's nightmare of Manhattan. He strips the Bruce Wayne legend down to its chassis, dumping Robin and the goony rogues' gallery. This is a face-off between two men in weird masks: one in a leathery black item out of a dominatrix's pleasure chest, the other with a grin frozen into a rictus. One man obsessed with good, the other enthralled by evil: Batman (Michael Keaton) and the Joker (Jack Nicholson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Murk in The Myth | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...AHEAD IN ADVERTISING. While plotting a sales campaign for a new pimple cream, a British ad exec develops a bizarre ailment: a boil on the neck that has a mouth of its own and talks back with a vengeance. With black humor and a weird, Kafkaesque sensibility, director Bruce Robinson delivers a biting satire of Thatcherite society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jun. 12, 1989 | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...Mary's this geek Psych person [a Psychology major] who's really directed, and I'm really spacey," says Betsy, who is an English major. "People think of us as 'the McCaggs' or 'the twins,' and it's weird...

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, | Title: Double the Skill and Success | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...AHEAD IN ADVERTISING. While plotting a sales campaign for a new pimple cream, a British ad exec develops a bizarre ailment: a boil on the neck that has a mouth of its own and talks back with a vengeance. With black humor and a weird, Kafkaesque sensibility, director Bruce Robinson delivers a biting satire of Thatcherite society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jun. 5, 1989 | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

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