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...that soars over the rugged or ravishing Cumberland countryside, that takes you into Limmeridge House and through all its haunted rooms, that mimics a dozen mid-19th century paintings while curling and circling in the glamorously kinetic style of film directors Max Ophuls and Miklos Jancso. Dudley worked similar magic on the London productions of The Coast of Utopia and Hitchcock Blonde, but never on so ambitious a scale or to such vertiginous effect. Gimmick, or foretaste off theater's future? Either way, it kept me enthralled. The Woman in White is not a great musical...
...point when medical breakthroughs could save the lives of millions. They see the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation not as a solution but as a catalyst for this progress: pumping resources and rigor into the fight just when scientists are inventing new tools that could change everything. "This is a magic time in terms of the momentum we can get going," Bill says later from his hotel suite...
...an avid Harry Potter fan, I take issue with Richard Corliss's view that the movie version of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is better than the book [Dec. 5]. As beautiful as the movie is, it sorely lacks the true magic of the book. Corliss noted that the film is better because it "telescopes the book's first 100 pages into a thrilling 20 minutes." But without the detail of those 100 pages, the start of the movie is disjointed and no doubt confusing to those who haven't read the book. The film falls flat...
...MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS...
...first story in Magic for Beginners concerns an enchanted handbag. Open it one way, and you find a village that was hidden inside it long ago for safekeeping. Open it another way, and you're pulled into a dark land guarded by a dog with no skin. Link's stories are kind of like that handbag. At first blush they look like charming yarns about divorce and TV shows, but they're haunted by dark spirits and dark emotions--loss, anger and despair. They play in a place few writers go, a netherworld between literature and fantasy, Alice Munro...