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...plausible scenario, at least. But whatever the reason, Olmec society was in full flower by 1200 B.C., at a place known as San Lorenzo, on a fertile plain overlooking the Chiquito River. Like all the known Olmec sites, San Lorenzo is much less impressive than the Mayan cities that dot the Yucatan peninsula to the east. One reason: it supported only a few thousand people, rather than 100,000 or more. The major buildings and plazas were little more than earthen mounds covered with grass, lacking any sort of masonry facade and probably topped with pole-and-thatch houses...
Sarandon was nominated for her first Oscar for "Atlantic City." She has received three Best Actress nominations in the past four years, for "The Client," "Lorenzo's Oil" and "Thelma and Louise." She has also been mentioned as a possible Best Actress nominee this year for her work in "Dead Man Walking." Those nominations will be announced today
Sarandon has received three Academy Award nominations in the past four years for her roles in "Thelma and Louise," "Lorenzo's Oil" and "The Client...
Since there no longer seems to be such a thing as bad publicity, Lorenzo Carcaterra's Sleepers (Ballantine; 404 pages; $23) can be deemed a resounding success even before it hits the best-seller lists. Not only has Hollywood paid $2.1 million for the film rights. Better yet, Carcaterra's self-described "true story" has prompted newspaper articles containing charges that parts or all of the book are simply the author's inventions...
...since Joe McGinniss began dreaming up things that Senator Edward M. Kennedy might have thought, in "The Last Brother" (1993), has there been such an elastic and accommodating definition of nonfiction as shown in Lorenzo Carcaterra's new book (Ballantine; 404 pages; $23). The story purports to be a true account of how a young Lorenzo, along with three childhood friends from New York's Hell's Kitchen, were sent to an upstate New York correctional facility, where they were repeatedly raped, beaten and tortured by four sadistic guards. Or were they? Lorenzo swears his account is true, but admits...