When Joe and Bruce (who have since made the Metallica doco Some Kind Of Monster) began filming Paradise Lost, they believed they were going to be making a film about disaffected youth and the rise in the number of child murderers something like a real life River's Edge.
While he may have made his way into the 1%, he's not merely speculating on life's jagged edges; he's lived them, so he has considerably more authority to address the polity honestly.
Re "Advice From Life's Graying Edge on Finishing With No Regrets" (Personal Health, Jan . 10: I think that Jane Brody should write a column on finishing life with regrets.
His compulsive urge to live on life's dangerous edge, stronger than any mere desire to win, was like an addiction to the thrill of gambling.
Maybe it was because of his taste for living on life's dangerous edge that he seldom beat a top player easily.
To learn more, read the full column, "Advice From Life's Graying Edge on Finishing With No Regrets," and be sure to listen to the voices of six men and women in the interactive feature "The Lessons of Life".
Mr. von Braunhut gravitated toward life's crazier edge, racing motorcycles as the Green Hornet and managing the career of a man who dived from 40 feet into a kiddie pool filled with 12 inches of water.
In this bowdlerized version, Kirk, who illustrated "Bigger" and Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo," has so smoothed out life's jagged edges, it's not surprising that he decided to paint his characters flat.
Here's something I think we could all use from time to time — especially those of us trying to make a real-life Mirror's Edge video.
I'm reminded of Half-Life, Mirror's Edge, and like some kind of weird Sonic game that doesn't require you to remove your testes to play.
