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Just in case we haven't sussed out the metaphor from dozens of other movies and books devoted to romanticizing Cosa Nostra, Mario Puzo's The Last Don, a six-hour mini-series (beginning May 11, 9:00 p.m. E.T., CBS) based on the author's best-selling 1996 novel, is here to remind us that the Mob functions no more or less rapaciously than any corporation or government, and at least its employees know a good prosciutto when they see one. Hollywood studios are run by vicious souls, the movie tells us; politicians are a meretricious and evil-thinking...
This work is very much a study in character and memory, as opposed to an action-based piece, and as such tends to feel highly literary. Its central metaphor has to do with birds and nests: the young hustlers, little birds buffeted by the winds of a world that scorns and rejects them, must always eventually come flying back to their place of acceptance--New Park, or the "Cozy Nest" that cradles them...
...metaphor I used was a nectarine and it was inspired by a silly conversation I had at work with some guy who told me that the fruit is a cross between a peach and a plum," she says. "I used the plum to represent his grandmother who is dark and a peach to represent the slave master...
Could the Heaven's Gaters distinguish pop fable from cold truth? Can we? Once we could. Not many of us took My Favorite Martian or Mork & Mindy as sacred texts. Frankenstein may have been a parable of science gone haywire and Dracula a metaphor for the wages of sex, but we knew they were just stories. Invasion of the Body Snatchers didn't spur an epidemic of podophobia...
...expressive: "Everything on earth was frail and fleeting, destined to crumble," she reflects. "All you could cling to in the end were those loving particulars." Among them are Atwater's favorite lopping shears, which he uses to clear deadwood to make way for new growth. They are the unmistakable metaphor at the heart of this artful and compassionate novel...