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...Elsewhere among 2024’s movies, the usual array of sequels includes Joaquin Phoenix’s return as DC Comics’ clown-faced villain in Joker: Folie à Deux, and the second chapter of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation...
...Wigdor grew up in suburban Long Island and went to university in Missouri before moving to Washington DC to study law....
...He drives a Tesla model S (with the paint stripped off to reveal the bare metal) and sails an 82ft Mark V special operations craft, a $3mn camouflaged Navy Seal vessel mounted with decommissioned machine...
...It marks the US composer’s Met return after a decade away from the company....
...In Caret (named, again, after a textual mark), it’s summer 1973....
...Books about Churchill stand alongside DC Comics encyclopaedias, the sea of family photos is dotted with islands of vintage Marvel memorabilia, and next to his computer a jar of Pepcid sits next to a jumbo...
...This October marks Lichtenstein’s centennial, celebrated in a display of his prints at London’s Tate Modern....
...Gideon Rachman Susan Glasser and I went to the same conference at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC last week. After the meetings were over, we sat down to talk about the midterms....
...Marks and Spencer’s Cool Comfort polyamide slip (£20, marksandspencer.com) comes in seven shades and up to seven lengths....
...Wise vs world Like any comic book hero, a would-be consumer champion needs a good back-story....
...happened to be in Washington DC last week when the first-phase US-China deal was being signed....
...“I was super keen to have the Beano as a partner because the comic was originally set up as a teaching device to encourage reluctant readers to read,” says Mr Haldane....
...Instead he turns to the ballet code of behaviour and choreography, which he promptly denatures for savvy comic effect....
...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Focus on the haystack — not on the needles / From Brendan P Geary, Washington, DC, US Active v passive: put more faith in market forces / From...
...But financiers who poured money into the making of Joker — the standout hit based on the DC Comics’ Batman villain with 11 Academy Awards nominations — are laughing all the way to the bank....
...But, Mr Ni concluded, Chinese-made chips based on RISC-V architecture are not controlled by other countries and have a future in emerging markets....
...hero was first known on the comic’s pages....
...These will sit alongside the company’s vast catalogue including South Park, The West Wing, The Lord of the Rings and DC comics franchises, and HBO’s Game of Thrones....
...This is a particular problem given that the UK is increasingly reliant on private DC pension provision....
...A founder of Italy’s Five Star Movement, Grillo brought 2m protesters to the streets in 2007 for a “V-Day” rally....
...Next to it, there is a floor-to-ceiling bookcase housing volumes ranging from 500 Master Games of Chess and Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time to Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, a comic-book series from DC Comics...
...Yet pop culture moves in mysterious ways, and here those deathless lines — “Everybody knows that the boat is leaking, everybody knows that the captain lied” — open the latest steroidal romp from DC Comics...
...“It’s brilliantly comic that he’s chosen satirical subjects often of the very people who are looking to buy his work,” says Thomas Marks, editor of art magazine Apollo....
...Mark Rylance looks and acts like a man from another era....
...He began work as a writer for 2000AD in his teens, but his biggest break came at 30, when he was asked by US powerhouse DC Comics to take on an existing comic, The Authority....
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