Fujiko Fujio isn’t anybody. It’s a made up name for the inventor of the inventive character Doreamon. So, who was Fujiko Fujio? A pair of boys who met in elementary school, formed a partnership at 17, then went to see Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka together, and then worked as a team until 1987. And…
Creating a character is a path to fame – for the character and not necessarily for the creator. If you saw the Waldo episode on Black Mirror, the puppeteer behind Waldo lives vicariously though his animated puppet. Waldo is just an animated video avatar in the form of a blue bear with a huge erection…
Banksy stenciled Einstein squatting on my corner in San Francisco, and you’ve probably heard of Banksy even though he’s based in London. Why? It’s not just because of the actual art. It’s about his commentary of resistance to authority, his protest and his mockery of the art system itself.
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Just in case you forgot, it was Paris Hilton who invited Kim Kardashian to clean her closet. And now Kim is friends with fickle Karl Lagerfeld. “Kim’s contribution to beauty and fashion — and what made her such an icon — is the fact that you don’t have to be super slim and very tall to be…
JEFF GOLDSMITH INTERVIEW WITH FRANK MILLER FROM THE 90s Q: I just read an interview where you said something that echoes something I’d heard before. Like, If Hitler weren’t stopped, we wouldn’t be living in a free world is that a Nietzschean eternal return of the Spartan defense against the Persians in 300? Doesn’t evil…
On September 11, 2003, Tommy Chong went to prison. 25 years after the world giggled at his antics in Up In Smoke with his partner Cheech, a jail term was sobering for the man who was at the time playing the older pothead on That 70’s Show. Tommy Chong had simply done what any father…
Jeffrey Goldsmith interviews Timothy Leary in 1992. DETAILS declined to publish it, but it’s a classic. Q:Why did Richard Nixon once call you “the most dangerous man in America”? A:Because I was perceived as a threat to the establishment which he controlled. I was one of the most prominent dissenters and I was able to use…
Emulated by woman of all ages, like a sex symbol of the underground, Our Lady of Kinky Fun, at 74 years old, Bettie Page is still the polar opposite of uptight – and she’ll teach you something about relationships, too. Bettie agreed to be interviewed by Jeffrey Goldsmith in the late 1990s. JG: Were you…
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