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...Storrow and Memorial Drives. While an Allston House might be about the same physical distance from the John Harvard statue as the Quad Houses, it is further in minutes and in mind. Imagine students taking a morning shuttle to class only to see it get stuck in the epic rush-hour traffic at the Larz Anderson Bridge. Imagine students drinking all night in Cambridge with their friends and then trying to cross Memorial Drive on their way back home. Students living in the Quad already feel separated from their peers along the river; an undergraduate campus spanning across two cities...
...that's why Americans are so f---ed up." More often, though, Asian directors dip into the pool of cultural references created by the West and happily exploit them. Vishal Bharadwaj's Maqbool sets Macbeth in Bombay, with gangsters in the place of Scottish lairds, though this entertaining Indian epic owes as much to Scarface as to Shakespeare. The Tesseract, from a novel by Alex Garland and directed by Oxide Pang (who with his brother Danny made last year's Hong Kong thriller The Eye), has a femme fatale with leather skirt, gun, motorcycle, high cheekbones-all the noir accessories...
...film production is controlled chaos, and Troy (whose reported budget is an epic $145 million) is no exception. Early this year, as the Iraq war approached, the production judiciously moved from Morocco to Baja California. On the Malta location this spring, severe heat brought fainting spells on many of the burly Bulgarians hired as extras. One bit player, a former Mr. Malta named George Camilleri, suffered a leg wound while jumping from a galleon and died a few weeks later...
...themselves, blood, sweat and fun don't make a good movie. Vision does. When Troy opens next May 21, we'll see if Homer's vision came through Petersen's viewfinder to create a genuine, grownup flesh-and-brains epic...
...Isaac Newton and Gottfried Liebniz (both major characters) are laying the foundations of modern science by hand, equation by equation. Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking and thrilling. In The Baroque Cycle, he proves on an epic scale that the key to knowing what's next is understanding what has come before...