Rating: ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ When I read Devery Anderson’s 2015 Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement and Mamie Till-Mobley’s Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America to refresh my memory about the savage murder – obliteration, really – of Emmett Till and saw the famous …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ Elvis was the Michael Jackson of his day. Or, rather, Michael Jackson was the Elvis of his day. The similarity of their worldwide fame is obvious, and so are the simultaneous power and inadequacy of their respective personae. Really, their rises and falls are common among those who achieve extraordinary success; the template of …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ For me, the most sympathetic character in Alan Moore’s graphic-novel masterpiece, Watchmen, is Rorschach: a gritty, psychologically conflicted, fedora- and trench coat-clad vigilante who hides his face with an inkblot-printed mask (hence his alias). Modelled after Steve Ditko’s Ayn Rand-inspired Mr. A and The Question, personifications of a Manichaean version of Objectivism, Rorschach tends …
