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...series. As people, we consume entertainment not just out of boredom or a need to keep up with the Joneses, but because of a love of characters. We’re fascinated by other people, and the more real they seem, the better. We empathize with Holden Caulfield, Elizabeth Bennet, and Jay Gatsby; we agonize over their fictional decisions with a rigor comparable to the way we analyze our own. “Battlestar” has amazing characters, so numerous and well-developed that I could spend an entire extra article telling you about how terrific they...
Father Flynn (Alex R. Breaux ’09) attempts to humanize the school. He doesn’t just deliver sermons; he coaches basketball and befriends the students. But do his attempts to modernize and humanize the Church cross the line? When the youngest nun, Sister James (Madeleine Bennet ’08), reports that Donald Muller, the school’s only black student, returned from Father Flynn’s office acting oddly and with a hint of alcohol on his breath, Sister Aloysius immediately assumes the worst. Aloysius, unwavering in her pursuit of justice, thinks...
...When Bennet Cerf, co-founder of Random House, was asked to describe the ideal best seller, he supposedly suggested the title Lincoln's Doctor's Dog. Pitches itself, doesn't it? There have been more books about Abraham Lincoln than any other American; this month brings us William Lee Miller's President Lincoln (Knopf; 497 pages), Allen C. Guelzo's Lincoln and Douglas (Simon & Schuster; 384 pages) and Did Lincoln Own Slaves? (Pantheon; 311 pages) by Gerald J. Prokopowicz, among others. That Lincoln is a suitable subject for scholarly work nobody would deny, but the volume of it suggests something...
...Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy—because their love endured both pride and prejudice...
...film version is directed by Joe Wright, best known for his recent adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice,” which, like this flick, also starred Keira Knightley. As a fan of neither Keira’s wolfish style of beauty nor her interpretation of Elizabeth Bennet, I was originally reluctant to see the Wright-Knightley duo assault another one of my favorite books. Many would claim that, with “Pride and Prejudice,” Wright successfully dealt with the doubly difficult task of interpreting an iconic book and remaking a cult classic film...