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...Chris Klein and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos,” raved Christine S. Narnia ’02. Reid Professor of English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher plans on dropping The Sound and the Fury to make room for the Rollerball screenplay in his popular class on modern American fiction. “I wouldn’t be surprised if more professors followed my lead,” said Fisher. “To get kids’ attention, one has to address the popular and critical juggernaut that this film has become. Right now, American culture is rollerball...
...flip through the pages and you’ll also find genuinely newsworthy exposés on everything from the Taliban to declining civic community. Throw in some specs on the latest cars and gadgets, maybe a recipe and a wine of the month or a piece of short fiction and—ba-da-bing—you’ve got a men’s magazine...
...time, though, Vidal’s interests returned to fiction and nonfiction writing—“Vidal really saw himself as a novelist,” Morris said...
Storytelling is divided into two narratively separate, but thematically consistent sections: Fiction and Nonfiction. Fiction,set in New Jersey, focuses on a creative writing class taught by a mordant Pulitzer Prize winning African-American teacher, Dr. Scott (Robert Wisdom). Solondz dives right into controversy by beginning the section with a love scene between Vi (Selma Blair) and cerebal palsy-inflicted Marcus (Leo Fitzpatick). Post-coitus, Leo accuses Vi of having grown tired of the novelty of handicapped sex. In class Leo reads an autobiographical story of his affair with Vi, and concludes by saying: “CP didn?...
Scott dismisses it as “callow and coy,” and as the discussion comes to a head, Vi yells out that it really happened. Scott answers that “once you start writing it all becomes fiction.” The whole of Fiction clocks in at around half an hour, and with the short running time, it suffers from a lack of character development, a wooden plot construct and bland cinematography. The students in the class never become more than voiceboxes for criticism of Solondz’s previous work, and the provocative questions...