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...book includes images of the white loose-leaf pages on which he jotted down the similes and metaphors from which his lyrics originate. But his range of talents doesn't include organization. Instead of revealing the inner turmoil of a twisted genius, these scratchings just seem like a jumble of non-sequiturs, like a word-association game played among asylum residents. (A characteristic sequence of "thoughts": Without Me, Mom, Let us Live, Violence, I Am, Kim, Hell Freezes, Kill You.) In part, he says, this haphazardness is by design. "Reading my lyric sheets even gets confusing for me sometimes...
...very title Synecdoche, New York is off-putting. Like a genius lunatic wandering the streets, it seems to scream, "I'm weird and difficult! Stay away!" But I say, it's weird and wonderful...
...great career break - he's awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant, giving him a few hundred thousand dollars to pursue his theatrical dreams - will slowly break him over the rest of his long, increasingly demented life. Caden moves to Manhattan, rents a warehouse and in it constructs a smaller version of the city outside. Hiring a huge cast, he sets out to assemble an epic of ordinariness. His second wife, Claire (Michelle Williams), will be the star; the ever-loyal Hazel is his assistant. A stalker named Sammy (Tom Noonan) has got the job of portraying Caden; "I've been following...
...traveling acting troupe in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Despite his stylistic missteps, Cappellani’s novel, at once full of literary allusions and lacking all high literary pretension, is a whimsical tribute to Shakespeare’s genius. —Staff writer Rachel Burns can be reached at rburns@fas.harvard.edu...
...life itself." Speaking to TIME, Klima added, however, that while "any piece of biographical knowledge about an author can help in the interpretation of his work, it is not decisive." The Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek was " a drunk", Klima pointed out. "But he still wrote the work of genius The Good Soldier Svejk...