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Daniel Clowes: The Hero Complex interview
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comDaniel Clowes draws lonely weirdos, sulking man-beasts, leering hipsters and human canisters for a savage ennui. They live in numbed-out neighborhoods beneath ...... -
Authors & Ideas: A talk with Daniel Clowes about the likable curmudgeon 'Wilson'
He's the kind of guy who waxes rhapsodic about his love for the human race but curses people who don't smile at his dog. He's full of odes to the sweep of life and won't stop sharing them with the strangers he accosts in coffee shops. He has no job and no...Tags: Arts and Culture, Scarlett Johansson, Jack Black, Newspaper and Magazine, Dorothy Parker
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Bravo TV's 'Work of Art' favors emo-hipster backstabber Miles Mendenhall
Culture MonsterIf little else, Bravo TV's "Work of Art" -- the new reality series set in the New York gallery scene -- proves that the art world is no different from just about every other profession: It's filled with sleaze, political...... -
An uneasy accord
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLAST year, one of Canada's most prestigious museums approached the cartoonist Seth, whose work combines realistic, character-based storytelling with a muted, nostalgic visual style reminiscent of Edward Hopper, about a show of contemporary artists who use...Tags: Philip Roth, Newspaper and Magazine, Art Institute of Chicago, Immigration, Columbia College Chicago
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Achingly drawn conclusions
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Partisan Review may have folded in the last year, but alienation and ennui are alive and well in American letters. Ironically, at the same time that comic-book protagonists have earned a new literary respect, they have lost the ability to transform...Tags: Jim Belushi, Football, Civil Unrest, Religious Conflicts, Cartoons
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Hitting a nerve
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterConsumerism and the counterculture collide hard on Telegraph Avenue, where political posters fill the space between chain stores. Three kids in hooded sweatshirts crouch on the sidewalk: "Can you spare some change ... for pot?" Away from the clamor,...Tags: Robin the Boy Wonder (fictional character), Kevin Smith, Documentary (genre), Entertainment, Arts
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Northwestern tackles the career (and controversies) of Tyler Perry
There are no sacred cows on the NBC sitcom "30 Rock." The show happily skewers its own network along with any number of pop-culture phenomena, and last week's episode was no different, with a running joke aimed squarely in the direction of Tyler Perry,...
Tags: Minority Groups, For Colored Girls (movie), Chicago City Hall, Entertainment, Oprah Winfrey
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A New Book by Cartoonist Daniel Clowes Reveals the Secrets to His Success
The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist Edited by Alvin Buenaventura (Abrams ComicArts, 224 pages, $40) Long before his work ended up on the silver screen, Daniel Clowes constructed his graphic novels as though all along he had a cinema...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Jack Black, Literature, Fiction, Leave It to Beaver (tv program)
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HBO developing 'Landlord' with Clowes: 'Ghost World' writer working on comedy for pay cabler
VarietyHBO is in development with writer Daniel Clowes on half-hour comedy "The Landlord." "Little Miss Sunshine" directors "Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, whose new film "Ruby Sparks" opens today, have shown interest in the project. "We just looked over the...Tags: Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi, Entertainment, Thora Birch
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Interview with Zippy creator Bill Griffith
Good thing Bill Griffith did not take Marcel Duchamp seriously. Otherwise, we'd be without Zippy (aka Zippy the Pinhead), the best-drawn daily underground comic strip in America, still running in 300 newspapers. Griffith, at the time a 19-year-old art...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Newspaper and Magazine, Artists, Entertainment, Documentary (genre)
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'Bones' Co-Star Having 'Fun' Writing
Zap2It.comWalt Disney and Scott Rudin Prods. are moving forward on the family comedy "Hours of Fun," hiring actor-turned-scribe John Francis Daley and his writing partner Jonathan Goldstein to polish the screenplay. According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Hours of...Tags: Comedy (genre), Entertainment, Walt Disney
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Suplee Draws on Showbiz Smarts for 'Art School'
Zap2It.comAlthough many actors secretly want to be directors, Ethan Suplee gets to play one in Terry Zwigoff's "Art School Confidential." Suplee plays Vince, the obnoxious roommate of protagonist Jerome (Max Minghella) at the artsy Strathmore Institute. While...Tags: Cinema Industry, Arts and Culture, Kevin Smith, Ethan Suplee, Entertainment
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