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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Finding Nemo, and... you mean there were other movies released in the theaters, on DVD, or shown on cable last year? Ben Varkentine insists that this is so.
LIST 2003: BEN VARKENTINE ON FILM by Ben Varkentine A few things you should know before we begin: 1) Ordering a list like this is difficult because it is arbitrary. What I mean is that I would not want anyone to think that I'm saying Finding Nemo is necessarily a "better" film than The Lord of the ...
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Few who have seen it dispute that for most of its run Buffy the Vampire Slayer was at the very least an entertaining, well-made series. A diverse group of scholars thinks it was more. Ben Varkentine walks the halls of Sunnydale High again to see if they’re right.
... To Buffy And Angel and the even better Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There is part of me that likes the way books like these think about television because sometimes it's the way I think about television. In both direct and indirect ways, BtVS has made me think more ...
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Ben Varkentine introduces you to Mark Evanier's unique and interesting "Point Of View" with a review of the writer's new essay collection, Comic Books and Other Necessities of Life.
COMIC BOOKS AND OTHER NECESSITIES OF LIFE BY MARK EVANIER TwoMorrows Mark Evanier's Comic Books and Other Necessities of Life is a collection of essays written for Comics Buyer's Guide, where Evanier's "POV" (Point of View) column appeared weekly from 1994 to early 2002. Devoted to comics and show ...
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Ben Varkentine returns to the mysterious plane of Mark Evanier's marvelous Point Of View with a review of the writer's new essay collection, Wertham Was Right! And it's a gas...
WERTHAM WAS RIGHT! BY MARK EVANIER TwoMorrows Mark Evanier's Wertham Was Right! is the follow-up to his previous collection of essays, Comic Books and Other Necessities of Life. Like that book, it contains a selection of columns that originally appeared in The Comics Buyer's Guide from 1994 to early ...
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With the Academy Awards upon us, Ben Varkentine checks out the new edition of Emanuel Levy's Oscar Fever, and lets you know whether it's worthy of the red carpet or the golden raspberry.
OSCAR FEVER BY EMANUEL LEVY Continuum Books Oscar Fever intends being an analysis of the trends of Oscar nominations and winners. As a reading experience, it is a chore, the kind of book where to find your eyes dancing around the page and your mind thinking of other things rather than being pulled ...
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After reviewing two Buffy-related books for Ink 19 already, Ben Varkentine finds this one a lot better written than the others. But a canker still arises on the rose.
... not eliminate the possibility of tortured prose or deification. These essays ask many of the questions that I've wished had been asked in similar books. In criticizing Candace Havens' biography of Buffy creator Joss Whedon earlier this year, I wrote: An independent-thinking writer could make much of ...
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One of the most watched and most critically acclaimed shows on television goes under the microscope in three new books. Ben Varkentine takes an in-depth look.
INSIDE THE WEST WING BY PAUL CHALLEN ECW Press THE WEST WING: THE OFFICIAL COMPANION BY IAN JACKMAN AND PAUL RUDITIS Pocket Books THE WEST WING SCRIPT BOOK BY AARON SORKIN Newmarket Press With over 20 million viewers each week consistently lifting it into the top Nielsen ratings, it's likely that ...
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Mark Evanier, Superheroes In My Pants, Comic Books and Other Necessities of Life, Wertham Was Right! ,Superheroes In My Pants!,by Mark Evanier,TwoMorrows,Ben Varkentine
... IN MY PANTS! BY MARK EVANIER TwoMorrows Mark Evanier's Superheroes In My Pants is his third collection of essays, a follow-up to 2002's Comic Books and Other Necessities of Life and last year's Wertham Was Right! (Mark likes those exclamation points; comes from knowing Scott Shaw! all those years). ...
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In 2002 Ben Varkentine wrote a combined review of three books then recently published on The West Wing. Calling it a serious TV show, he called for serious books to look at it. A recent book answers that call, and a new script collection takes things right back down to the basics.
... popular television show willing to discuss issues that matter. As a result of this richness of content, in 2002 I wrote a combined review of three books then recently published on the series. Calling The West Wing a serious TV show, I called for serious books to look at it. The first such book was published ...
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Naming your penis is stupid, never masturbate with John Cheever, and other words of wisdom carefully selected by Ben Varkentine and guaranteed to raise Ink 19's hit count.
... BITS BY JACK MURNIGHAN (EDITOR) Four Walls Eight Windows Things I learned by reading Classic Nasty, an anthology of the Good Parts of great books (from The Iliad to The Corrections, as it says on the spine): 1. Like this books' editor and the poet Homer, I am a lover, not a fighter. 2. Rita Mae Brown ...
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