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...reformer in tune with restless young Iranians, in hopes of returning the former President to the job he left in 1997. As he settles into a gilt-trimmed chair, he says he may do a campaign commercial with the Iranian director of the recent film The Lizard, a huge hit that poked rare fun at the righteous clerics who form Iran's ruling class. "It's an idea," Rafsanjani says. "There is no script yet." He laughs when told that his son Mehdi has already jokingly come up with a title for the spot: "The Lizard...
...different era: the Industrial Revolution, the present day and-stay with me here-the far future. The three parts are written in three different literary genres and feature the same three characters. Walt Whitman also makes a cameo. Oh, and there's a 5-ft.-tall, talking alien lizard woman. Recklessness: check...
...second part, readers of the arch-serious Hours will be surprised to find themselves in a jittery, edgy, very contemporary mystery story about urban terrorism. And then, in another sharp turn, the third part takes us to a future Manhattan populated by lifelike androids and lizard-like aliens, refugees from another planet. (That section also features Cunningham's first-ever car chase.) What holds the disparate components of Specimen Days together is Cunningham's intense focus on New York City as a crucible in which we're forced to confront the radically foreign-even alien-realities of death, technology, urban...
...lizards came into this how? "I wrote that last section in a farmhouse in Tuscany," Cunningham says. "And every morning the loveliest little greenish-purple lizard would dart back and forth. She had exactly that aspect of intense creaturely otherness. I liked her a great deal." What does it feel like for a Pulitzer winner to put words in the mouth of a lizard? "Dizzying and odd-but that's as it should be," he says. "I just have the very vaguest stirrings of what I want to write next-and again, it's something I can't possibly...
Nonetheless, the simpler joy of playing music was apparent from the looks on the Unknowns’ faces this past Friday. They enjoyed an almost Last Waltz-like vibe as the Lizard Lounge was packed with friends both past and present. Warren, at one point, stated that she wanted the band to be thought of as “the band with a heart of gold.” It seems as if a road of possibility stretches ahead for the Great Unknowns...