Word: mockingbirdã
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...part of this week’s American Library Association’s “Banned Books Week.” The Square’s Harvard Book Store currently displays once-banned books ranging from Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird?? to William Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying.” Across Massachusetts Avenue, the Coop is showcasing books from “Harry Potter” series, which has received its fair share of controversy. While the Square’s outlook...
...while McGrath draws excellent performances from Jones and Bullock—who captures Lee’s own anxiety at being unable to produce a work to rival “To Kill a Mockingbird??—the film is otherwise uneven. Spliced throughout are interviews—conducted by an anonymous questioner—with some of Capote’s closest friends. The interviews, which contain external observations about Capote and his relationship with Smith, seem better suited to the History Channel, and interrupt the narrative flow of the feature film...
...background and that director Tom Dey was the mastermind behind “Showtime,” a Robert DeNiro/Eddie Murphy spoof about reality-based TV cop shows. The script juggles the main love story with numerous subplots—including one about a comical obsession with killing a mockingbird??to keep the audience from getting bored. But even the most naïve viewer can guess every point in the plot—Can Tripp commit? Will Paula admit her true feelings for him?—because it’s all been done before. Clear...
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