I can understand why an actor might be totally over the whole red carpet thing. But Cate, if you don’t want your dress to be photographed so that viewers and readers can admire the whole thing, then perhaps you could try turning up to the next awards nights in jeans and a T-shirt.
Hope you win the Oscar, by the way. Still think you’re amazing in Blue Jasmine.
Guardian, I love you, but you’re embarrassing yourself (Part 2).
As if the concept of a piece which tries to shame Cate Blanchett for complaining about the objectification of her gender wasn’t bad enough, that last line – the “Still think you’re amazing” – is particularly offensive to me, for some reason; it stands out as particularly patronizing for reasons that I can’t quite pinpoint.
But Moore is right to question some aspects of today’s comics culture. The banal Hollywood industry of turning piquant comics (including his) into mediocre blockbuster films is boring, and there is potentially something absurd about a civilisation that thinks graphic novels are way cooler than actual novels. There’s a smug complacency about, say, the New York Times giving comics masses of review space. Are graphic novels just cultural capital for the university-educated who dig the postmodernity of the medium?
This is why I fell in love with Moore’s comics. Unlike cool graphic novels about urban angst, his comics really are comics with a restless unrespectability. His dark ideas and savage humour make his works less cosy and more dangerous than any rival. He puts the shame back into the grownup comic, and that is as it should be.
Guardian, I love you, but you’re embarrassing yourself (Part 1).
“There is potentially something absurd about a civilisation that thinks graphic novels are way cooler than actual novels.” Ah, the concept of a hierarchy of media – or the primacy of prose, for that matter.
Also, why exactly “should” there be shame in the grownup comic?
The heirs of Superman co-creator Joe Shuster got some bad news on Tuesday when the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals voted not to hold a rehearing in a dispute that challenged Warner Bros.’ grip on the Superman franchise.
But contrary to news reports out there, this isn’t quite the end to a dispute that stretches back decades in many guises.
The Hollywood Reporter explains the current state of the Superman rights case(s). Short version: The Shuster side of things is done. The Siegel side of things, not so much.
do u wanna see lobot in the new star wars movies
Sure! I’m not too keen on the new movies being chock full of fan service — I’d rather they moved into uncharted territory instead of constantly going, “Hey, remember when THIS happened?”, ie. the overblown Khan HJs in NuTrek: Into Darkness, which, I should point out, was a film I enjoyed, but the minute they FaceTimed OG Spock, I was making gasface — but I also really love Lobot.
Three words: SON OF LOBOT.
