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Long before making a name for himself as a director with his disconcertingly dark vision and cryptic storytelling style, the 61-year-old Lynch was an artist. After spending his childhood and teen years painting and sketching, Lynch enrolled to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1965, where his interest then turned to the moving image...
...flat-chested teen, she shaped, nipped and tucked herself into a living hood ornament. She styled herself la Marilyn Monroe and then, after fighting drug problems and ballooning, whittled herself down as a spokeswoman for TrimSpa diet supplements. According to her mother, she even invented her childhood, mythologizing her middle-class upbringing into a hardscrabble one, like Jay Gatsby in reverse. Feral, brazen and vacant, Smith was not talented in most usual senses, but in one way she was an artist. She was her own sculpture...
INDICTED. Childhood pals Brent Wilkes, 52, a defense contractor, and Kyle (Dusty) Foggo, 52, former executive director of the CIA; on fraud and other charges surrounding a contract for bottled water for CIA officers in Iraq; in connection with the corruption probe that sent ex-Congressman Randy Cunningham to prison last year; in San Diego. Wilkes was separately charged with conspiring to bribe Cunningham to win deals...
...dealt predominantly with the lives of working-class young women, dissecting them with sympathy and sharp observation. Since the narrator of “Castle Rock” (presumably Munro herself, living out fictionalized situations) is such a character, Munro is at her strongest when she recalls her childhood and adolescence. The lively writing and intricately detailed descriptions of everything from the ramshackle farm where her father raised foxes for fur to the contents of the wedding trunk that her poor but meticulous family put together for her are entirely engrossing. The emotional life of the narrator is also wonderfully...
...Labyrinth” all cinematic elements work together so seamlessly that the actors and the effects eventually merge. The dramatic finesse of the ensemble cast build upon del Toro’s vision, although no one person outshines it. Through diverse aesthetic orchestration—adulthood and childhood, violence and peace, reality and fantasy—del Toro has achieved the unheard-of: a film that satisfies viewers’ various tastes without compromising artistic vision. —Staff writer Mollie K. Wright can be reached at mkwright@fas.harvard.edu...