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...with you on your next flight? Then how about these charming depictions of the story of Buddha? Osamu Tezuka (1928-89), a pioneer of the manga (Japanese comic book), added his own characters and stories to the life and times of the great spiritual leader, creating a graphic-novel epic...
...done many types of films, and Alexander is the culmination of a journey that has taken me from genre to genre. There's a grandiosity in Alexander, and I've always wanted to do an epic. When I was a kid, he was always my hero. When I was at N.Y.U. film school in the late '60s, I fantasized about taking a crew back in time to get footage of him. Now, 35 years later, I got a chance to make that movie...
Jones explores Henry's life from every possible angle, restlessly following minor characters through love stories, comedies and epic quests, skipping across decades of time and continents of space--The Known World is a glorious, enthralling, tangled root ball of a book--but always returning to the story's tragic core. Slowly, terrifyingly, it dawns on us that although Henry has his free papers, he's the product of an evil world, and his soul will never be free. When it was published last summer, Jones' book seemed like a very mature first novel. With the benefit of eight months...
Planned by Disney as a blockbuster epic, The Alamo is instead arriving in theaters with a whiff of stale cheese about it. Doleful stories of the project--directors and writers hired and dropped, the budget cut and restored, the story rearranged during editing--could land the film on the junk heap of historical movies. (Remember Al Pacino in his 1776 saga, Revolution? Neither does anyone else.) But, in fact, The Alamo deserves a fate better than oblivion...
Mongiardini—who currently reigns as Ivy League Rookie and Pitcher of the Week—had given up 15 earned runs in 13 innings pitched before his epic duel against Ohlendorf last week. But seven innings, nine strikeouts and one complete game win later, Yale head coach John Stuper may choose to throw the first-year into the fire once again in the Elis’ opener against Harvard. Mongiardini would be matching up against either senior Jason Brown or sophomore Matt Brunnig, who is currently recovering from an elbow injury...