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...ride to the killing fields of Stalingrad on a truckload of sheep), and her insights into the weirdness of Western ways perceptive. Back home, "I would already have had a husband," Kaja laments as a surly Cologne teenager. "Here, on the other hand, I lived a kind of extended childhood, in which everything seemed to be an apprenticeship and nothing is done entirely seriously." Di Natale's apprenticeship as a writer is entirely serious. Her second novel, Il Giardino del Luppolo (The Hop Garden), published last year in Italy, is about a young German in the 1920s who has hallucinatory...
Thursday, Nov. 10—Saturday, Nov. 19. The Seagull. Four young childhood friends—full of passions and unrequited love—fantasize about their futures, only to be reunited two years later to face their unfulfilled dreams. 2:30 p.m. (Saturday) and 7:30 p.m. Loeb Ex. Free. Tickets available only at the Loeb Drama Center Box Office, 64 Brattle...
...Favorite childhood toy: I really liked toy guns and Nintendo...
That's an awful lot of cinematic firepower for what is essentially a 40-min. boutique movie, and even Hanks has only so many favor chits to play. The reason he spends them on projects like this, he says, has less to do with his childhood love of space than with his lack of the temperament to pursue space as a career. "I took an observational astronomy course when I was in junior college," he says, "which essentially involved looking through a telescope. I loved it and aced it and then moved on to Astronomy 101, which was all math...
...then McDonell’s treatment of 9/11 is still both mystifying and maddening. The terrorist attacks are portrayed as a sort of reflection of Mike’s personal tragedies. His mother and father, who form a dysfunctional and unloving couple, have cast a shadow over his childhood, and the fall of the Twin Towers comes shortly after his parents’ death in a fiery blaze. Moreover, the Twin Towers collapse as Mike is losing the two pillars of his own life: his brother Lyle and his girlfriend Jane. It seems that McDonell is likening the events...