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ADAPTATION. At its core, Adaptation is an analysis of the intellectual diseases that plague every writer, from editorial pressure to sibling rivalry to unrequited love. But its narrative edges make it a unique experience. Nicolas Cage plays writer Charlie Kaufman (the real-life writer of the film), who becomes consumed by his assignment to adapt Susan Orlean’s meditative nonfiction novel The Orchid Thief and his own personal eccentricities. Like Kaufman and director Spike Jonze’s previous film Being John Malkovich, several plots overlap and intertwine with surprising at dramatic twists, creating a frustrating, complex film...
...science class. “The Body” turned “Mind” will introduce students to the many parallels between our cosmic universe and professional wrestling. How did we get here? Will Rowdy Roddy Piper defeat Rick Flair in next week’s steel cage match? What are planets? Guest lecturers include “Mean” Gene Okerlund and Vince McMahon. Demonstrations, including a simulation of a figure-four leg lock on Mars, will occur frequently...
ADAPTATION. At its core, Adaptation is an analysis of the intellectual diseases that plague every writer, from editorial pressure to sibling rivalry to unrequited love. But its narrative edges make it a unique experience. Nicolas Cage plays writer Charlie Kaufman (the real-life writer of the film), who becomes consumed by his assignment to adapt Susan Orlean’s meditative nonfiction novel The Orchid Thief and his own personal eccentricities. Like Kaufman and director Spike Jonze’s previous film Being John Malkovich, several plots overlap and intertwine with surprising at dramatic twists, creating a frustrating, complex film...
...LeNeveu is able to surpass Ithaca’s puck icon before the season is through, don’t expect to see that famous picture of Dryden—wearing the old-style goalie mask and leaning his catcher on the cage during a stoppage of play—to be pushed out of the Cornell media guide anytime soon...
...security guard at Lamont library who wishes to remain anonymous is sure the “name doesn’t ring a bell.” He’s referring to a not-so-cryptic message in the far corner of the basement microfiche cage in Lamont, one floor below the most subterranean study carrels. The message warns late-night users of a certain “Mad Jack.” Despite the words of this self-proclaimed “well-wisher,” the guard thinks Jack’s a joke. He says...