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...think people were surprised by the diversity of voices in Diaspora.It was a big magazine," Kevin says. But he notes that people would have been less surprised in a school which was not so predominantly white. "It's a Black literary magazine. It's a strange beast at Harvard," he says. "[At Black colleges,] people can have a lot of different identies without being kicked out of the Black sphere." Kevin notes that in other categorical literatures, such as women's writing, "Diversity becomes a clearer issue...
...glitch in writing poetry, then is the problem of finance. When I ask Kevin if he plans to be a poet supporting himself with his writing alone he says, "I don't think there is any such beast. Even Seamus [Heaney] teachers and lectures." He laughs when I ask him if he wants to be famous. "Do I want to be famous? Well, I'm not going to be rich In a way, it's reassuring that no one cares about poetry," he answer. "But I'd like to be know, and to keep writing think if I said tomorrow...
Huston's ego is commensurate with the whale's body: "You ever figure, kid, how much the Beast is like me? The hero plowing the seas, plowing women left and right, off round the world and no stops?" No brakes is more like it. Although Huston poses as a 19th century squire, he is actually a very modern con man, incessantly flagellating or flattering Bradbury into an inhuman schedule. When the script is accepted, the director will unceremoniously grab 50% of the screen credit...
...Summer films are for kids, winter films for adults. Not lately. This past winter played like the Nickelodeon Channel on the big screen. The four $100 million-plus movies were based on fairy tales (Beauty and the Beast, Hook) or kooky TV turns (The Addams Family, Wayne's World). Rivals are looking at Paramount's recent success with youth-oriented TV rip-offs (Addams and Wayne's, plus the Star Trek and Naked Gun series) and thinking seriously about green lighting retreads of reruns: Gilligan's Island, The Beverly Hillbillies, even The Flintstones with John Goodman as Fred. This summer...
...thrills may be as flat as the main courses in some of the specialty restaurants. But it is a noble goal, beyond commerce or compromise -- especially today, in an age when every form of pop culture has at least as many enemies as fans. With Beauty and the Beast and Euro Disney, Walt's successors try and, substantially, triumph...