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Edward accurately describes the novel in which he appears. The Good Apprentice is a tour de force of narrative energy. It also includes the provocative remarks ("If Newton hadn't believed in God he would have discovered relativity," or "Psychoanalysis attracts failed artists") that have become a hallmark of Murdoch's dialogue. But in raising expectations that all the frantic activity she describes will finally lead to some sort of understanding, the author finally sets herself up for a fall. A last word of sorts is left to Harry: "No one can avoid muddle." That is probably true. But Murdoch...
After interviewing some fellow passengers, Alexander returned to Newark several times, including the post-Thanksgiving weekend, when hundreds were stranded in the jammed terminal. "I hadn't been in a mob like that since I went to see the Rolling Stones at Boston Garden in 1969," he says. "There weren't enough seats in the place, so in order to get where the people were I did interviews sitting on the floor...
...Smith, which comes out next month,very closely: the first time you see Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is actually pretty much the first time the two actors laid eyes on each other too. The movie was so bedeviled by scheduling conflicts and cast changes that the two stars hadn't met before the first day of shooting. "It was going to be rolling the dice," says director Doug Liman (Swingers, The Bourne Identity). "I decided I would take advantage of the awkwardness. They don't really know each other. They're not comfortable. Just sit them down...
...Greg Zielinski--Z to just about everyone on post--and for a split second you wonder whether he is actually built out of some material other than flesh and blood. Everything about him shines--his nearly shaved head, every buckle and boot, his manner. His father says if Zielinski hadn't gone to West Point, he probably would have been president of a fraternity. He is pathologically social, both liked and looked up to by fellow cadets, especially those who bleed Army green. "Z?" they say. "He's huah," delivering the words with the appropriate Southern drawl--"heezoowah"--as though...
...risky for the press to project its preferences onto the Jury. In 1994, most critics we knew were sure the winner would be Red, the imposing climax to Krzysztof Kieslowki's "Three Colors" trilogy. Well, the critics may have seen all three films, but the Jury members hadn't. They and their President, Clint Eastwood, shut out Red and handed the Palme to a film the press savants hadn't even considered: Pulp Fiction. Proving again, that in Cannes, the more you know, the more you don't know...