Word: fictionizing
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...year-end movies are often solemn, sensitive items: women's work after 11 months of guy stuff. But Oliver Stone is alpha male incarnate, and his pictures, from Platoon to JFK to Any Given Sunday, are celebrations and autopsies of overweening machismo. Alexander, his first fiction film in five years, promises plenty more of the same. Instead of a stately epic--like Robert Rossen's 1956 Alexander the Great, with Richard Burton as the globe-annexing god-king--Stone presents a riot of sensations, military and erotic, through which Alexander (Colin Farrell) has to hack like an intrepid soldier through...
...story of a young girl facing the mysteries of womanhood looks almost like a child's therapy comic. Eleanor Davis' "The Bird Eater," rendered in a style reminiscent of Aesop's fable woodcuts, tells a strange parable of a monster that terrorizes a community of tree-dwelling gnomes. Non-fiction also appears in the form of Gabriella's Gamboa's curious history of the Fox sisters, a trio of phony spiritualists from the 19th century. No two contributors have the same approach. So, is the notion of a "woman's" voice apocryphal...
...FICTION: The author of Housekeeping resurfaces at last...
...soon-to-be-divorced mother of three small children, she needed the money, and Tiger didn't mind her working at home, 700 km from London. The relationship began to fray only after he started asking for sex. Not the real kind - their relationship remained entirely professional - but the fictional kind. He decided to try his - or rather, their - hand at fiction. "We are thinking about a beautiful novel," he told her. "It will have a beautiful cover." He had his own ideas about what would go inside. "Have we reached the orgamsi [sic] yet?" he would ask, as Erdal...
...where he cut through the clutter that had so often surrounded decisions that had to be made on the spot and offered the mature sounding board that Kerry had been missing. Kerry's traveling staff took to calling Sasso "the Wolf," after Harvey Keitel's fixer character in Pulp Fiction. The old hands like Cahill, Cutter and Shrum remained in place, leaving everyone to wonder how well the campaign would function with two camps vying to guide it through the final, most difficult phase of the race. But one thing was clear: it would be different from here...