Word: fictionizing
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...beautiful girl. But I went to high school with three girls who look like Cameron Diaz. Uma Thurman is a different species. She's up there with Garbo and Dietrich in goddess territory." Like a 3-year-old, Tarantino demonstrates his affection through inventive cruelty. In Pulp Fiction he gave Thurman an adrenaline needle to the heart (a nice metaphor for love, Tarantino style). But that was a barrel of rose petals compared with what he cooked up for her in Kill Bill. "I get shot in the head, raped, kicked, beaten and sliced by samurai swords," says Thurman brightly...
Kidder has just published the results in Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World—an account as challenging as it is edifying. His latest non-fiction book is really two works in one: alongside the litany of Farmer’s achievements, recited with his usual eye for detail, Kidder unflinchingly explores the moral and emotional complexity surrounding the book’s creation...
...explains that he did this in part to ground the stranger-than-fiction events chronicled in the book...
...Koreans, who in recent years have seized pop-film primacy from Hong Kong, make the most of their borrowings from other cultures. Jang Jun Hwan's Save the Green Planet! has a paranoid science-fiction premise: that aliens are to take over Earth at the next lunar eclipse and that, our deranged hero believes, they use their hair to broadcast telepathic signals. You've heard this before, possibly from someone muttering next to you on a bus. But then the madness escalates: for a while you think the movie is going crazy; then you realize that the insanity is contagious...
Another questioner asked him to name his favorite movie. The Dalai Lama said he found most fiction films too violent, and that he preferred National Geographic and the Discovery Channel...