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...start with is love," Bok says. "I don't have a natural voice. I've worked hard at it." Bok picked up guitar at nine, and though he could work out the notes, timing escaped him entirely. A Camden shipbuilder took the matter in hand, collared the lad and made him listen to Dixieland on the phonograph while Gordon thumped his foot to the beat...
...story is adapted from the narrative of the 12th century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, who wrote the first formal version of the Grail legend. Perceval (Fabrice Luchini), a Welsh lad of sublime simplicity, encounters five knights galloping after distressed damsels. At first he takes the warriors for angels, but when he learns they are men like him self, he sets out to find King Arthur, that famous knight maker. Perceval's mother had told him to help ladies in trouble but to expect no more than a kiss, and perhaps a ring, in return. He misreads...
First novels are customarily praised for showing promise. Green's fulfilled it. Blindness opens with the diary of John Haye, 16, a student at a typically repressive English public school. The lad shows himself to be a callow but somehow endearing little twit, alternately gushing over books he likes and playing the world-weary aesthete. Asked to submit a story to a school magazine, Haye notes archly that "there is a sense of degradation attached to appearing in print." The young dandy likes to appear cold and aloof: "It sounds an awful thing to write, but I seldom meet...
...also has what is probably the film's most telling scene: one night he hoists a lad- der up the side of a sorority house and spies on the coeds through a window. In any other college movie, his efforts would not pay off, but here they do in spades. Belushi's wide eyes take in one gorgeous nude body after another as the girls engage in pillow fights and unmentionable other acts. Yet there is nothing sordid about his voyeurism; it seems almost pure. That is because the Lampoon people understand the darkest secret of an American...
...think I'm going to do anything daft today, you're wrong." Sir Freddie is especially pleased with his insignia and title because he has long attacked the government for its air policy. "The last thing you expect is to be told you're a good lad," he says. "You expect a kick in the arse...