From Mr. Li Zhuowu’s Literary Criticism of Journey to the West (late 16th-century). 4. Intelligence Lastly, I would like to highlight Monkey’s intellect. Despite his common association with using force, he is shown in the novel to be very clever, often relying on a number of mental...
The Prestigious Presto Kid (Wild West Magic Superhero)The Prestigious Presto Kid was a masked magician in the Old West! Jeff Grant was a blacksmith who learned from a travelling chemist that also dabbled in stage magic. Taking what he knew, Jeff used his tricks instead of guns to bring rus...
” long before that reference was a pop-culture reference. I grew up sitting against The Green Monster. You can clock my age in successive photographs. Based on his novel,David Duchovnybrings this father-son story to the big screens at Tribeca. I couldn’t be...
That is not to say that the Tanaka name has no meaning. Millions of Americans were first introduced to Tiger Tanaka in the Ian Fleming novel “You Only Live Twice,” in which Agent 007 befriends a Japanese agent by that name. “Ian Fleming used to base his characters on real people,”...