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With over twenty-five books to his name, as well as fellowships, honorary degrees and innumerable articles, Harold Bloom is arguably the nation’s premier literary thinker today...
...he’s not afraid to veer from the literary, either, as anyone in First Parish Church learned on Monday. There to promote his new book—Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?—Bloom also waxed on a number of topics, including religion and “our current American political debacle...
...Although Bloom insisted in an interview prior to the reading that he would not pack the capacious old church, he managed to come close and filled the puritan hall with his slow, methodical voice as he read from his latest book and spoke eagerly about literature and his life...
...Bloom, 74, was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard from 1987-88, during which time he lived in Adams house. He has otherwise taught at Yale for the past 51 years. “I long ago began referring to myself as Bloom Brontosaurus,” he joked, “but I intend to go on teaching as long as I feel I’m capable...
...skeptical light, Kingdom of Heaven can be seen as a recipe of familiar faces and tropes. Hire Ridley Scott to direct a burly period epic that pits an obscure hero against historical figures (think Gladiator, then substitute the Holy Roman Empire for the plain old Roman one). Cast Orlando Bloom as a young smithy who boldly challenges the nobility and Liam Neeson as the rebel hero's stalwart father figure (as he was for Leonardo DiCaprio in Gangs of New York). Add Jeremy Irons for tone and Eva Green (The Dreamers) for the mandatory romance. Stir...