Akosua is a Twi origin name, meaning ‘born’ on Sunday. Here’s another excellent option for people looking for a day-inspired name. She was also nominated for the best Female Hip-Hop Artist at the BET Awards. This name is inspired by the Ethiopian hip-hop artist Lola Monroe. Its alternate spelling variation is Maryam. Mariam is the African and Arabic variant of the Biblical name Mary. Mariam:Īs Mary is sailing further out of style, her variations are becoming more and more popular.
The name feels a bit dated in front of its sisters, Magda, and Magdalene, but will make a unique moniker for your daughter. Makda is the Ethiopian version of the Hebrew name Magda, meaning ‘high tower’. Or you can choose Hababah, the daughter of Ajlan and the narrator of Hadith. The name Habiba is popular in all Muslim dominated African regions, including Somalia and Ethiopia, and stand for ‘beloved’. There was a time when this name was rarely heard outside the Arabic community, but is now a favorite of the Ethiopian parents. Faizah:įaizah is an extremely exotic Arabic/African name, meaning ‘victorious’. Literary buffs would relate this name with Jamila Singer, a character in Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight Children’. Jamila is an Arabic origin name used widely in many African countries, including Ethiopia. Recently, it was heard in “Desperate Housewives’. It went on to become the 12th most popular name in the 1980s. I spent an awful lot of this film gasping for air and giggling hysterically, often at the same time.įunny Pages screened at the Cannes film festival and is released on 16 September in cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema.This Arabic name came into popularity via the soap opera, “Days of our Lives”. Funny Pages is about that kind of Crumb vision in comics, which confronts or exorcises, or is simply a cry for help. To watch this film is to be reminded of Paul Giamatti’s performance as the gloomy cartoonist Harvey Pekar in American Splendor (2003) or the real Robert Crumb, the dark master of offensive sexual transgression in Terry Zwigoff’s classic documentary Crumb (1994), along with his unforgettably unhappy and marginalised brothers Charles and Max. There are some great cameos, including a hilarious one from the legendary Louise Lasser as a mean lady in a pharmacist.
But the entirely awful and very mad Wallace, by his own admission, had no creative input in these comics, and can do nothing but drag Robert into an awful chaos: the unfunny pages of real life. Robert makes it his muddled mission to somehow befriend or redeem Wallace, an act of homage he considers appropriate for a young master like himself. He even intends to move away from the comfortable family home in Princeton, New Jersey, and going to the tough neighbouring town of Trenton he rents a nightmarish room from the ineffably creepy landlord Barry (Michael Townsend Wright).īut it is in the DA’s office that Robert is electrified by a discovery: among the gallery of losers and creeps is Wallace (Matthew Maher), who Robert realises was once the “colour assistant” on some of the comics he loves. He imperiously tells his uptight parents (played by Josh Pais and Maria Dizzia) that he has no intention of going to college, preferring instead to follow his artistic vocation – sanctified, of course by this noble teacher. The rest of the time he hangs out obsessively at the local comics store, cultivating his fanatical connoisseurship.
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The subsequent shocking series of events ends with Robert getting a humble filing job in the district attorney’s office, covertly sketching the various lowlifes and no-hopers he sees there on both sides of the law. Poor Robert sketches him as best he can and while walking home later, Katano draws up alongside in his car and insists on offering Robert a lift – pulling into the oncoming traffic lane as he does so. We begin as this inspirational teacher, Katano (Stephen Adly Guirgis) is challenging Robert to wake up creatively, to get out of his comfort zone, and perhaps draw him naked, maybe? Polite, biddable Robert says yes and Katano strips off – his great, obese, middle-aged body fully revealed when his vast white underpants are discarded.
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