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...about the prospect of major social change, especially with regard to the issue of same-sex marriage. “We certainly won’t be having the same conversation 20 years from now,” he said. Students who attended the event said they enjoyed McCarthy??s talk. “I thought it was very enlightening,” said Isaac P. Martinez, Jr. ’09, who added that, as a gay American, he feels strongly about same-sex marriage. “The sooner it is legalized, the better...
...will soon: in the opening scenes, he gazes forlornly out a window at laughing college coeds, eats at an empty table in a crowded dining hall, and swigs copious amounts of red wine alone in his house. It’s clear from these initial minutes that director Tom McCarthy??s new movie “The Visitor” isn’t as understated as his last offering, 2004’s critically-acclaimed Sundance hit “The Station Agent.” The story of an introverted dwarf and his cautious friendships...
...film as close to life as possible. “I spent a lot of time hanging with the Arab community in New York City,” he said. “It’s just like having a good time and hanging out.” McCarthy??s inspiration and research was not limited to the United States. Tarek was drawn from the author’s own experiences in the Middle East. “I was in the Middle East for a bit; Tarek came out of there,” he said...
...these movies,” Brolin said at a recent round-table interview with The Crimson.At the interview, Brolin revealed how personal tragedy led to eerily deep connections with his character in his latest film.‘NOVEL’ IDEABrolin’s first exposure to Cormac McCarthy??s “No Country for Old Men” came unexpectedly.While shooting “Grindhouse” in Texas, Brolin started reading the book on a friend’s recommendation. Now, the actor says he has read almost all of McCarthy?...
...McCarthy is one of America’s greatest storytellers. No author since Steinbeck has been able to illuminate the vast and unfathomable panoramas of the American landscape so well; nor, since Conrad, to locate so adeptly the sinister madness that pervades human culture. The first film adapted from McCarthy??s work was 2000’s disappointing, Billy Bob Thorton-directed effort “All the Pretty Horses”. Consequently, one might expect that Hollywood would once again mishandle the work of one of the literary geniuses of the last century. In the hands...