Bone artist Jeff Smith was interviewed on PBS’ Newshour and is on exhibit at Ohio State University’s Wexner Center for the Arts. What could be more respectable? Slide show and viewer questions for Jeff here. Art Center coolness here.
Guillermo del Toro has a lot to say about Hellboy and hobbits at the L.A. Film Festival. (Really, it’s an hour interview).
There’s lots to enjoy about romance novels. The arc of character development. The layered emotional content. The rare and welcome sense of success (otherwise known as the happy ending). A good romance novel is a singular pleasure. A bad one, on the other hand, can be excruciating.
Speaking of Forbidden Kingdom, Jackie Chan and Jet Li are interviewed together at wu-jing.org.
With the ladies of Forbidden Kingdom looking a little… lackluster, here’s some of the original white-haired bride, Brigitte Lin (Bride with White Hair and The East Is Red) and the original Golden Swallow, Cheng Pei-Pei (Come Drink With Me and The Lady Hermit). And here’s some Angela Mao […]
It’s one of the most successful fantasy series of all time, and the author died while writing the twelfth and final volume. What to do? The show must go on, but who would want to take time out from their own work to finish the damn thing? A […]
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The Cultural Gutter 