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...Lincoln just got a spiffy new museum near his boyhood home in Springfield, Ill. But the hometown legacy of less-than-Lincolnesque figures is often harder to maintain. An update on some domiciles of departed American icons that have been in and out of danger recently...
...Grand Prix), Sam Shepard in Wim Wenders' Don't Come Knocking, and William Hurt in James Marsh's The King. A similar theme, of past sins haunting and tainting the present, was the preoccupation of several other biggies: ancient murders in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence, boyhood betrayal in Michael Haneke's Hidden, slavery in the American South in Lars Von Trier's Manderlay. The Grand Palais screen was streaked with guilty consciences. And as Sith ends with its plot conflicts in midair, leading up and back to the original 1977 Star Wars film, so many...
...anthology that won her the Pulitzer in 1973, Kumin considers the birches that define the New England landscape from the perspective of a mother—whereas Frost famously approaches the same natural features from the vantage-point of an adult man looking back toward his boyhood. Kumin writes...
...comparison, World's Fair is downright guarded. Doctorow calls it a novel. But the book reads like a memoir, and is unmistakably based on the author's early boyhood in the Bronx. The account begins with a bed wetting in the middle of the Depression and ends on the eve of World War II with a nine-year-old Edgar Altschuler burying a cardboard time capsule containing a Tom Mix decoder badge, his school report on the life of F.D.R., a harmonica and a pair of Tootsy Toy lead rocket ships, "to show I had foreseen the future...
...starring Cassavetes as Mikey and his frequent star, Peter Falk (Columbo) as his friend, Nicky, May traces one night in New York City among the titular amigos. Mikey is fleeing from the mob he betrayed with the help of the only person he thinks he can trust, his boyhood friend and fellow Mafioso, Nicky. But can Mikey trust Nicky...