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A few weeks ago, I got catty about Anne Hathaway's outfit for The Dark Knight Rises. But outfits are important in the Batman universe. When the police catch Joker, they discover his 'clothing is custom, no labels.' Joker's duds perfectly suit his role as the 'Anonymous' of Gotham...
(1) Comments | Posted 8 May 2012 | (00:00)
Mic check
MIC CHECK
Two new languages
TWO NEW LANGUAGES
Two new languages rose to prominence in the early 2010s. The first was the communal, crowd-speech of the Occupy movement, where a speaker had his or her words amplified by a human microphone. The second was...
(1) Comments | Posted 24 April 2012 | (00:00)
I'm a Batman fan. I love Batman. Not in that way. Well, maybe in that way. It's hard to tell, isn't it? There are so many different Batmen.
There's the grim, gothic figure of the 1939 comic books, the patriotic war hero of the early 1940s film serials, the 1960s...
(2) Comments | Posted 16 April 2012 | (17:51)
Nobody admits to liking Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin. Even George Clooney admitted the movie stank, and he played Batman in it. People didn't like the nipples on the costumes, the codpieces, the camp, the pantomime performances.
Christopher Nolan certainly didn't like it. In the published screenplay for Batman Begins,...
(0) Comments | Posted 11 May 2012 | (13:18)