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Now comes Barbara Kingsolver, whose second novel, Animal Dreams, is an entertaining distillation of eco-feminist materials. There is the fragile landscape -- the fictional town of Grace, Ariz., whose river and Edenic orchards face extinction by the Black Mountain Mining Co. And there is the doughty heroine -- Codi Noline, who...
David Lynch is an industry these days. America's most distinctive moviemaker had directed just four features (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune and Blue Velvet) in a 15-year career, but now he's everywhere. His Twin Peaks brought flaming weirdness to prime-time television. He has directed TV commercials...
If the young Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland were making a movie about stagestruck kids today, they probably wouldn't mount a musical in the backyard and wait for lightning to strike. Nor would they necessarily look for a summer-stock barn or tent, like so many fledgling players of...
Fortunately, The Freshman possesses another subtext that thrives on the power of Brando's acting. On one level, The Freshman is about the father-son relationship between Sabatini, who never had a son, and Kellogg, whose father died when he was six. This would be an utterly ordinary thesis in...
Of course, there have been many good points about working with the Italians too. Dorchester is an interesting place, and I know Boston much better than I did before. There are quite a few Dorchester kids who know how to multiply much better than they did last month. And when...