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...Street Kings (an oddly static and generic title for a movie that seethes with deranged energy) comes from Southern California's dark romancer of violent cops, James Ellroy - or, as he calls himself, the "king of American crime fiction." Unlike L.A. Confidential and Black Dahlia, this movie isn't based on an Ellroy novel. It comes from an original script of Ellroy's that two lesser scribes worked over. But under David Ayer's direction it's still got Ellroy's arrhythmic pulse, careering from one high-caliber confrontation to another. The movie is in love with the boys...
...conjure up memories of a variety of “exotic” vacations, including journeys to Morocco, the Middle East, and the country that gives the café its namesake. But one aspect of the coffee house is uniquely Algerian: its prices are as absurd as the fiction of the land’s most famous novelist, Albert Camus. It’s highly unlikely that a $3.50 croissant even exists in France, let alone in a former colony, and paying $9.95 for a ham sandwich is as ridiculous as shooting a stranger on the beach for no reason...
Fighting the lure of sunshine and 70-plus degree temperatures outside, an audience of nearly 200 filled Lowell Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon for prominent playwright Tony Kushner’s lecture, “Fiction That’s True! Historical Fiction and Anxiety...
...Fiction that is true is the only type that anyone should read or write,” Kushner said, referencing Melville among others. “But all telling of the truth for the historian and the artist is very, very hard...It is a voyage, not an arrival, with shipwreck virtually guaranteed...
...Harvard.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s apologies drew laughter at every line from a Lowell Lecture Hall audience of more than 250, including University President Drew G. Faust. It was a slyly appropriate opening to a speech entitled “Fiction that’s True: Historical Fiction and Anxiety.” Kushner performing Kushner confessed guilt at being an artist—“fooling around in a world of trouble.” But in a wide-ranging discussion on the relationship between art and history, Kushner made...