Friday, 1 August 2014

The Week in Pop: Simon, Hitchbot and more culture picks

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The Week in Pop: Simon, Hitchbot and more culture picks

In this graphic novel from Dark Horse (now in paperback), writer J.W. Rinzler and illustrator Mike Mayhew transform George Lucas' rough-draft Star Wars script into a comic. If you don't want to get your hands on it … In Ken Reid's podcast, which I …
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The Cocaine, the Blood, the Body Count

For Mr. Soderbergh, who saw the pilot script when he was only a few months into his announced retirement from feature filmmaking, “The Knick” was an irresistible chance to have his genre-convention-tweaking way with one of television's hoariest staples.
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Readers sound off on guilt, smears and smokes

Manhattan: I was shocked by your front-page story “Bubba abused by his mom” (July 24), about Hillary Clinton's claim that Bill's mother's abuse caused his philandering habits, even in the Oval Office. … Flip the script. Bronx: To racist Voicers who …
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Reinventing the thong with a crowd

He says the goal is to launch the thongs in the northern hemisphere – branded as flip flops – so Willi Footwear can become a year-round business, instead of a side project that operates mainly in the summer. The entrepreneurs … The crowdfunding page …
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