Who’s on the Line?...
From a longer Washingtonpost.com article about TV and movie representation of surveillance: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who back in June reportedly went to great lengths to defend Jack Bauer. …At a legal conference in Ottawa, responding to another participant who warned against asking,...
OpinionJournal - Jack Bauer Insurance...
Can CIA agents be sued for protecting America with too much vigor?: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT What would Jack Bauer do? If he worked at the CIA in real life today, the anti-terror hero of Fox’s “24” would apparently be buying insurance in case the ACLU or John Kerry decided...
Billy Jack Is Ready to Fight the Good Fi...
In a fascinating interview with the New York Times Tom Laughlin and Delores Taylor, the husband and wife team that brought us Billy Jack - the classic outsider hero of the 60s/70s - says they are going to make a new film. They are looking at combining the film with political activism around the Iraq...
Dark Knight Returns...
Batman begins today and all the reviews have been glowing. Manohla Dargis in the New York Times hones in on the characterisation in a way that mirrors much of the discussion on the human/superhero duality that was explored at last weekend’s conference: What Mr. Nolan gets, and gets better than...
The Governator...
One of the fascinating sessions in the Superheroes conference was the keynote by Louise Krasniewicz about the Arnie factor (check out her Arnie hypertext project). Titled “True Lies Superhero: Do we really want our icons to come to life?” it rehearsed many of the themes from her great book...