Neil Gaiman, erstwhile comic book
scribe cum novelist, best known in
this vicinity for his Sandman comic book series, won the Newbery Medal for his
young adult volume, The Graveyard Book,
which, patterned after Kipling's Jungle
Book, is an illustrated collection of stories about a boy growing up in a
graveyard and raised by supernatural creatures. Entertainment Weekly for February 20 carries a photo of Gaimen in
all his fetchingly tousled, black-clad splendor, seated at his writing table in
his rugged Wisconsin getaway cabin. ...
Hollywood
trades, we learn from various online sources, are reporting that Steven Spielberg
has begun principal photography on the Tintin
movie, “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.” According to
report, Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) is starring as the intrepid, globe-trotting
reporter with the funny quiff hairdo, and Andy Serkis will play Captain
Haddocks, while Simon Pegg and Nick Frost will portray the hapless detectives
Thompson and Thomson. And some new characters have been added to the Herge
canon: an American Interpol agent, and those staples of newspaper movies, a rival
reporter and a bellowing editor. ... Mike
Luckovich made it into The New Yorker
again, his second appearance in that august periodical, with a half-page
cartoon: it showed a mildly disgruntled GeeDubya leaving the capital under a
huge poster of Martin Luther King, Jr. bearing the headline: “Free at last,
free at last.” I’m not sure what to make of it. GeeDubya looks somewhat peeved,
as I said, but why? Because he’s leaving? Because he’s now free? Because his
suitcase is too heavy?
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