Word: amours
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...Hewitt is even worse. He doesn't seem to have even a little evil in him, even wearing the three-day growth of stubble that clings stubbornly to his chin throughout his hospitalization. And he seems to have no sense of humor; he never says anything funny to his amour, only "I love you." "I'd die without you." "I never want to stop loving you. In fact, that may be the oldest thing about this movie. They never, ever do anything together except the old...well, you know. If they are so in love, you think it might...
...most provocative French films of the past 20 years: Truffaut's Jules and Jim and The Wild Child; Godard's Les Carabiniers; and Rossellini's The Rise of Louis XIV. The slide show has been assembled by Alain Resnais, director of such films as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad and La Guerre Est Finie. Today's class will be a bit longer than usual, but I believe you will find the experience entertaining as well as instructive...
...Hemingway? I don't like his novels much, except that one about Spain." In stead, the author pores over maps, diaries and histories. In addition, he regularly does field work in Durango, Colo., so that he can be close to the land he writes about. If L' Amour is not praised as a prose stylist, he is applauded for lore that is accurate down to the last lariat...
...editor once omitted one of my foot notes," he recalls. "It explained that a certain type of gun - a scraper - was only made in a test model. I got thousands of letters from frontier buffs and gun people." L'Amour's factual asides have been treated with greater respect ever since...
...simple fidelity to detail that has made L'Amour's novels excep tional bestsellers. His popularity keeps growing because, in an epoch of prose experiments and self-conscious narrative, he has never forgotten to spin his yarn. "My books are meant to be read aloud," he says. "I'm a troubadour, a village taleteller. I'm the guy at the end of the bar or in the shadows of the campfire." In the past decade, he has become a kind of Woody Guthrie of fiction, a conservative populist who believes the myths he creates...