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DK: The original Star Wars was a groundbreaking movie. Special effects aside, never before had the world seen what was essentially a kid's story told with such earnestness and excitement on the big screen. For better or worse, Lucas revolutionized the film industry, making the telling of myths and...
He had already written Light in August and The Sound and the Fury, but in 1948, when WILLIAM FAULKNER submitted a short story to the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's, steely editors at both publications rejected it. This week the Virginia Quarterly Review, a journal apparently with less forbidding standards...
It got that much 25, 30 years ago, when sexuality was a subject that attracted serious moviemakers and moviegoers. The X-rated Midnight Cowboy won the top Oscar for 1969; Columbia Pictures released the sexy French film Emmanuelle and made a bundle; Marlon Brando poured out his heart and his...
Hyatt's Classic Residence, which operates a dozen upscale retirement communities in the U.S., has worked with Duke researcher Schiffman to create flavor- intensive recipes. Its stock in trade: stock. Classic Residence chefs typically prepare meats, for example, by marinating them in broths that have been reduced to concentrated essences...
Theme parks are an eternal work in progress. On a few basic ride genres (the coaster, the stunt show, the 3-D effects extravaganza, the bumpy-ride-plus-film that began with George Lucas' Star Tours), grownup kids are always looking for inventive story lines to harness to new techniques...