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...Isaac Geldhart (Ron Rifkin), the head of a family publishing house, loves the very bookness of books--their smell, new or old, and the texture of fine paper, on which is written witness to a century of atrocity. But the public may want a sexy novel more than The Architecture of the Holocaust. Anyway, that's the belief of Isaac's grown children (Tony Goldwyn, Sarah Jessica Parker, Timothy Hutton), who wrest control of the house from their father. Soon after, Isaac lapses into a madness that estranges him from the world as fully as from his family...
Daniel Sullivan, who directed both the stage and film versions, is not exactly a moviemaker, and Baitz has cushioned Isaac's fall with a final reconciliation. But Baitz has also expanded his play to give Isaac room to parade his obsessions. A familiar tragedy is made potent by the value of the gift withdrawn: Isaac, whose life is his mind, is losing it. Rifkin sees the majesty in Isaac's madness; he soars as he declines. In an era when films reduce the aged to comic cranks, Rifkin is heroic--the Lear of grumpy...
These Harvard professors followed giants in science such as Isaac Newton, who was ranked first, Albert Einstein at second and Charles Darwin at fourth, according to the Harvard Gazette...
...contrast, is the wild and woolly saga of one family more widely perceived as historical. Exhorting Abraham to leave his father's house and country, God offers him incalculable descendants and property. Abraham accepts, and the rest of Genesis describes his triumphs and travails and those of his son Isaac, grandson Jacob and great grandson Joseph; as they and their extended families are tested by hostile neighbors, famines, recurrent infertility and sometimes by the Deity himself. Divine intent and human ambition blur as each generation, often through painful winnowing, produces a champion to advance Israel's destiny. The book ends...
...novelist's) ability to see the patriarchal dramas through the eyes of each participant, seldom condemning and usually illuminating. Panelist Naomi Rosenblatt is a psychotherapist, and her Wrestling with Angels (Delta, with co-author Joshua Horwitz) features the subheadings "When Children Become Hostage to Their Parents' Marriage" (Jacob, Esau, Isaac, Rebekah) and "Setting Limits on Self-love" (Joseph...