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...tough to be an almost 13-year-old boy. Even if one’s never been, still, one can imagine. But Eugene “Genie” Smalls, the protagonist of “Huge,” James W. Fuerst’s debut novel, has more than his fair share of adolescent angst with which to deal. “Huge” uses a fairly familiar archetype as its foundation—the bildungsroman—but the storyline quickly diverges from cliché to downright bizarre. The novel, narrated from the young Genie?...
...Swanberg went to bed in Austin, Texas, last Friday evening excited about the world premiere of his new movie, Alexander the Last, the following night at the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival. But by the time he woke up - still more than 12 hours ahead of the debut - his inbox was already flooded with e-mails from colleagues in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago, congratulating him on the movie they had just finished watching and the reviews they had read in the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and the New Yorker. Within a single day, Swanberg...
...home-video campaign, all the while substantially reducing the cost of a national release and maximizing the word-of-mouth buzz from his Austin premiere. By comparison, the Amy Adams comedy Sunshine Cleaning, which opened theatrically the day before Swanberg's screening, waited 14 months after its festival debut for an initial theatrical debut, on four screens...
...London in 1963, when her mother was still a promising young actress. At the time, Natasha's father, film director Tony Richardson, was the more famous parent; that year he directed the 18th-century caper-comedy Tom Jones, winning Oscars for the picture and himself. Natasha made her film debut at the age of 4 in Dad's revisionist take on The Charge of the Light Brigade. By then, Redgrave had become the brightest new light of stage (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) and screen (Morgan, Blowup, Camelot.) Having separated from Richardson, Redgrave took up with Franco Nero...
...period pieces that emphasized her glamour and hauteur; often she stepped into roles made famous by earlier movie legends. In a 1987 West End musical version of High Society, she was perennial debutante Tracy Lord, played in movies by Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly. She made her Broadway debut in 1993 as Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, a part Greta Garbo made famous on film and which Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann had performed on stage...