http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Splendor Posts tagged with 'Splendor' at MetaFilter. Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:32:57 -0800 Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:32:57 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/27748/Finally%2DA%2Dmovie%2Dfor%2Dthe%2D1%2DNation%2DAMERICAN%2DSPLENDOR%2DIS%2DNOW%2DPLAYING%2DAT%2DA%2DTHEATER%2DNEAR%2DYOU <em><a href="http://www.americansplendormovie.com/main.html" title="AMERICAN SPLENDOR IS NOW PLAYING AT A THEATER NEAR YOU!!!!!">SEE!</a> </em><a href="http://www.lambiek.net/pekar_harvey.htm" title="In 1976, Harvey Pekar brought a real breakthrough in American comics: his ''American Splendor'', a comic featuring Pekar's stories drawn by several artists such as R. Crumb, Joe Zabel, G. Budgett and Gary Dumm, brought unflinching realism into comics. Harvey Pekar billed this book as coming ''from off the streets of Cleveland'' and that's the kind of stories readers got - no bombast in either tag lines or narratives, no romanticizing of either sex or violence.">Harvey</a> <a href="http://www.harveypekar.com/" title="Harvey Pekar Has A Blog!!">Pekar</a>, file clerk extraordinaire, wrestle with <a href="http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/lml/comics/pages/ourCancerYear.html" title="Our Cancer Year">mortality</a>.<em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/19/nyregion/19BOLD.html?ex=1061956800&en=05843b37d48efb33&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE" title="Angst, despair, obsessive-compulsive disorder, cancer, money problems -- but you know how the movies glamorize things. So the question for Harvey Pekar -- the underground comic book writer and retired government file clerk who is the subject of ''American Splendor'' -- and his wife, Joyce Brabner: were things exaggerated? That first date, for instance, in which Ms. Brabner is portrayed as throwing up all over Mr. Pekar's bathroom. Was that true? ">DREAM!!</a></em> with Harvey as he plots to re-sell his used books and records for absurdly inflated prices.<em> <a href="http://www.chrisbuck.com/PhotoDetail.aspx?PhotoMenuItemID=7&MenuItemID=17" title="As you see him imitate art!">FEAR!!!</a></em> for your sanity as Harvey takes you deep into the bowels of a Cleveland veteran's hospital.<em> <a href="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0941423646.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" title="The movie is based upon this anthology!!!! ">RAGE!!!!</a></em> with Harvey at the aggression and general obtuseness of people around him. He's a reasonable guy. He's also a noted <a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2000-05-19/music_recviews4.html" title="Miles Davis with John Coltrane - The Complete Columbia Recordings ">jazz critic</a>, <a href="http://rachel.auschron.com/issues/vol16/issue41/books.pynchon.html" title="Hitting Below the Mason-Dixon Line - America's Favorite Curmudgeon Takes On Thomas Pynchon">book reviewer</a> and <a href="http://www.wksu.org/feature/harveypekar/" title="Harvey Pekar is the ideal embodiment of life in Cleveland. A working-class Joe with a worldview that attains the impossible by being optimistic and pessimistic nearly simultaneously, Harvey displays hidden depths of insight and talent much like the city he calls home. Since 1999, Harvey has shared his reflections on life in the 21st century as a WKSU commentator, earning him kudos regionally and nationally.">radio commentator. <a href="http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1061031729291&call_pageid=968867495754&col=969483191630" title="''I can't relate to 99 per cent of humanity,'' sighs Steve Buscemi's sad-sack Seymour in Ghost World, the morose masterwork of three summers past. Seymour, meet fellow ''one percenter'' Harvey Pekar. That's assuming you haven't already run into him as he rummaged through old jazz albums at garage sales, ranted into his coffee at a greasy spoon or shuffled along the street in his faded lumberjack shirt."><em>Now Playing</em></a> <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/08/17/MO308196.DTL&type=printable" title="Co-directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, ''American Splendor'' covers Pekar's roots in Cleveland, his obsession with record collecting, his early friendship with Robert Crumb (played by James Urbaniak) and his 35-year tenure as a film clerk for a Veterans Administration hospital. We learn about Pekar's tirade on a TV appearance with David Letterman; the lymphoma that sidelined him in 1990 and '91; his bizarre linking-up with Brabner, a fellow comics artist whose caustic humor and mothering instinct proved his ideal match; and the couple's connection with Danielle Batone, a young girl who started living with them when she was 9."><em>At A Theater</em></a> <a href="http://www.filmjerk.com/nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=581" title="When all is said and done, I simply loved this movie, and I can’t wait to see it again. ''American Splendor'' gets an A+ for effort and an A+ for execution."><em>Near You</em></a>.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.27748 Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:32:57 -0800 American Comics Harvey HarveyPekar Movie Pekar Splendor y2karl