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2002 Stories by Ed Park

• Working Weak

  published December 24, 2002

  Along with Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940), Billy Wilder's 1960 Oscar-sweeper The Apartment elevates the... More >>

• The Current Cinema

  published December 3, 2002

  The success of Adaptation, based on Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief, has turned other unlikely books by New Yorker writers... More >>

• Magical Mystery Tours

  published November 12, 2002

  The shapeliest entry in J.K. Rowling's boy-wiz chronicles, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, reminds us that all fictions contain an... More >>

• The Good Girls

  published October 15, 2002

  Viewers allergic to adorable-animal movies should know that felines barely leave a paw print in Take Care of My Cat, Korean director... More >>

• Undercover Brothers

  published October 1, 2002

  He is not Jesus, but he has the same initials: Seven years into his rebirth as an American box-office draw, Jackie Chan plays an unwitting secret... More >>

• Suffer the Children

  published September 17, 2002

  "A child is a child is a child is a child," says the head of a Chicago adoption agency in Outside Looking In, noting with dismay how some... More >>

• Clipped Wings

  published September 10, 2002

  Rich people are different from you and me; they're not nearly as funny. "Do you know where your sterling performance is going to take you now,... More >>

• Somebody's Watching Me

  published August 20, 2002

  "There are plots against people, aren't there?" Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) asks in Rosemary's Baby, one of six films in the Pioneer's... More >>

• High and Low

  published August 13, 2002

  Ten minutes after we were airborne a woman asked me for my autograph. —Americana (1971) More >>

• Egadsby!

  published August 6, 2002

  In March 2002, a group of authors and critics told Book mag that lit's top fictional dog, post-1900, was good old Jay Gatsby, from that... More >>

• Hotrod Stuart

  published July 23, 2002

  In Stuart Little 2 (Columbia, in general release), the titular fur-face (voiced by Michael J. Fox) experiences growing pains that would be... More >>

• Last Men Standing

  published July 23, 2002

  "I did a scene where I had to kill 30 people at once," Toshiro Mifune remarked about Akira Kurosawa's Sanjuro (1962), one of 12 offerings... More >>

• Brand Identity

  published July 16, 2002

  "East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet," quoth an intertitle in Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat (1915), before the... More >>

• Talk Talk

  published July 2, 2002

  The fly on the wall has an appropriately compound eye in Marilyn Freeman and Anne de Marcken's Group, a real-time emotional rescue gleaned... More >>

• Ohana Be Adored

  published June 25, 2002

  Tempering cosmic horror with a hang-loose Hawaiian ethos, Disney's latest animated film, Lilo & Stitch (in general release), has a creature... More >>

• Four on the Floor

  published June 11, 2002

  Borges credited his first taste of infinite regress to a biscuit tin depicting a Japanese scene in which the same biscuit tin was reproduced. In... More >>

• Canvas Sneaker

  published May 28, 2002

  Mundus vult decipi: The world likes to be deceived. In The Next Big Thing, PJ Posner's first feature, the New York demimonde... More >>

• Beard Like Us

  published May 7, 2002

  The credits that open Janice Beard (Empire, opens May 10 at the Angelika) raise hopes that the great proofreading movie has finally... More >>

• Not Into the Mystic

  published April 30, 2002

  The boy handed in libellous reviews of the films. 'We can't print this, man,' Ganesh said. 'Is all right for you to... More >>

• The Sting

  published April 23, 2002

  Can you smell what the Rock is cooking? Barthes asserts that professional wrestling must be considered as a "spectacle of excess" rather than a... More >>

• The Outsiders

  published April 16, 2002

  Permit me to be terrified. —Klee on Van Gogh What do we want from Henry Darger? Born in Chicago a century and a decade ago... More >>

• Fortunate Sons

  published April 9, 2002

  Now that many of us have grown tired of saying "the full monty" when conveying everythingness—or merely disrobing for the shower—the... More >>

• Beat the Parents

  published April 2, 2002

  "With this magic title of Paris, a play or review or book is always assured of success," noted Théophile Gautier of 19th-century... More >>

• Industry Standard

  published March 5, 2002

  Though Henry Jaglom's Festival in Cannes unfolds in a Euro-paradise at movie-harvest time, it thankfully goes easy on the reel/real world... More >>

• Get Plucky

  published February 26, 2002

  In Snack and Drink, a short in this year's New York International Children's Film Festival (Cantor Film Center, March 2 through 10; see More >>