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Since “The Ambassadors” debuted in 1903, literary critics from E. M. Forster to David Lodge have debated how the Newsome family makes its money—a driving element in the novel’s plot, which follows Lewis Lambert Strether to Europe as he searches for the Newsome family’s long-lost...
...first manufacturer of ready-made wooden toothpicks, James Forster, set up shop in Cambridge—where James briefly, but unsuccessfully, studied at Harvard Law School, and where his parents owned a home...
...clearly didn’t think of him as an ‘outsider.’” Outsider or insider, Singh is sure that whatever happens he will continue to merge social change with art. “There’s that famous E. M. Forster exhortation to ‘only connect! Live in fragments no longer,’” Dorin says. “That’s Currun. He connects. He lives completely...
...isn’t the sequel to “Anchorman” that you’ve all been waiting for. Though its trailer frames it as a typical Will Ferrell comedy, he spends an astonishingly small amount of his screen-time screaming wildly. Directed by Marc Forster (“Finding Neverland”), “Stranger Than Fiction” centers on Harold Crick (Ferrell), an obsessive-compulsive workaholic who suddenly discovers that his life is being narrated by the voice of British novelist Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson).Needless to say, it?...
...more sensitive Ferrell in a script that plays like Charlie Kaufman Lite: that should send up breakthrough and Oscar signals. It doesn't quite, though. The movie is clever, but a little too pleased with its own clockwork intricacy. Director Marc Forster and a tony cast (Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah) hit every punch line with a gong, and Ferrell, who's quiet and fine, seems as lost among them as Harold is in his suddenly fictional world...