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...YEARS AGO, JAMES ELLROY picked up a copy of Libra, Don DeLillo's 1988 fictional meditation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. At the time, Ellroy was a writer with a growing cult reputation; his crime novels, set in his native Los Angeles--The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential--had shown up on paperback best-seller lists and inspired much chatter among mystery fans: here was a guy who had pushed the genre way, way past hardboiled, into the realm of the terminally scalded. Ellroy seemed set on a path toward at least a shot...
That is exactly what Don DeLillo envisions in his vivid 1988 novel, Libra, which has been adapted and staged by John Malkovich for Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe. Oswald is variously buffeted by communists who hate Kennedy, CIA renegades bent on a better Bay of Pigs invasion and Mafia overlords whose motives are as shadowy as their methods. As history, the explanations are no more satisfying than any others. As literature, the portrait of Oswald's strange world -- especially his bizarre mother -- is richer, spookier and eerily funnier than anything else on the subject...
...love them," says Lisan L. Goines '95, a Libra, although she doesn't believe in the predictions because they always forecast "good stuff...
Stone appears to have less tolerance for others who want to do the same thing. According to Hollywood sources, the director has worked hard to block a movie based on Don DeLillo's 1988 book, Libra, a fictionalized account of the assassination. "Stone has a right to make his film, but he doesn't have a right to try and stop everyone else from making their films," says Dale Pollock, president of A&M Films, which has been trying to make the DeLillo movie...
...Star of the Constellation of Libra is our home...