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...wretched of this world ? it certainly wasn't Diego Alatriste y Tenorio. As an infantry captain, he had fought well against Spain's enemies. But now he was hacking out a squalid living in Madrid as a sword-for-hire. Nevertheless, Captain Alatriste is poised to become fiction's hottest international swashbuckler since the Scarlet Pimpernel. Already a cult hero in Spain, Alatriste is the star of five novels by former journalist Arturo Pérez-Reverte that have sold more than 4 million copies in 50 countries since the first volume appeared a decade ago. That book, Captain Alatriste...
...Eric Schlosser's non-fiction best-seller Fast Food Nation suggested that, if Big Macs and Whoppers weren't killing the average American (who consumes three burgers and four orders of French fries a week), they were stuffing him with toxic waste. The book, and Schlosser's kid-friendly sequel Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food, might have made for a stinging documentary film. But that was too simple for him and director Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise, School of Rock); or maybe they thought that Morgan Spurlock's Super Size...
...virtues of Pollack?s documentary that it keeps Gehry pretty much in human scale. The two men are clearly friends and the film director - making his first non-fiction film - shoots in a style much less formal than he usually does in his features. He is also very much present in the movie, himself shooting with a small video camera while chatting with Gehry and using some of this material in the film. Despite his own successful career - full disclosure here, I?ve known Pollack casually for many years and employed him as the impeccable narrator of a number...
We’re terrible at predicting what will happen—flying cars, a perennial favorite of science fiction writers for three-quarters of a century, are barely closer to reality now than they were when my parents were born, and then-president of the Royal Society Lord Kelvin, after whom the temperature scale is named, remarked back in 1897 that “the aeroplane is scientifically impossible”—but something invariably will. Since the Harvard class of 2006 arrived on campus four years ago, wikipedia has grown tenfold, the Facebook appeared...
...Brown's best-selling The Da Vinci Code granted fans access to a thrillingly fictionalized Opus Dei, a religious society both secretive and sinister. Our story on the reality of the Roman Catholic group's rituals, social connections and spiritual convictions inspired readers' aversion, wonder and spirited defense Thank you for your report on the controversial Catholic organization Opus Dei [April 24]. Any group that is exclusive, isolated and secretive cannot be truly Christian. Just like the press investigations into the protection given to pedophile priests, your article will help the Roman Catholic Church cleanse itself of its secrecy...