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And then, in an act of both appropriation and reconciliation, the authorities of Tran's homeland adopted his movie: they made The Scent of Green Papaya the official Oscar entry from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Perhaps, for a nation emerging from centuries of war, the movie is the best...
Nonetheless, the majority of NAT's $8 million budget comes from two patrons -- a French emigre named Laura Pels, who believes she is helping launch an American equivalent of the Comedie-Francaise, and Randall himself. He takes no salary, donates all outside earnings, and has given more than $1 million...
They will need all the help they can get. According to Ivan Nagy, a burly Hungarian emigre and shady, fringe-TV director (Starsky and Hutch), Heidi has the goods on all her clients: names, dates, phone tapes, encounters. Nagy, who had a turbulent affair with Heidi, recalls that the two...
His writing and teaching have always ranged widely. Their base -- laid long ago at Harvard -- is the tradition of German philology, exemplified in America by the emigre scholar Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), that explores the modes and levels of representation in Western writing. "Representation" -- how we see other cultures, how...
The chaotic life of screenwriter Joe Eszterhas could serve as a high-concept sequel to The Player, last year's scathing parody of movie industry manners. Fade in: A Hungarian emigre becomes a hotshot newspaper reporter in the 1960s, reinvents himself as a gonzo journalist and gets the call from...