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PENN: This is a myth of people who write about film--who has chemistry together, who doesn't. It's just a function of timing and circumstance, nothing more...
...quietly backing away from its most startling assertion, but to most Americans, the satellite caper remained real, a dramatic reminder that for a bright youngster steeped in the secret arts of the computer age, anything is possible. Says Steven Levy, author of Hackers: "It's an immensely seductive myth, that a kid with a little computer can bring a powerful institution to its knees...
...thing; indeed, he must destroy the part of civilization he has erected in order to let his son live a few more years in innocence. Boorman's triumph is to reclaim, for himself and the viewer, that Edenic state where domestic tragedy takes on the sheen of myth, and where art is its own purging adventure: baptism by film. --By Richard Corliss
...elite member of the warrior class. To vary the pace and tone, Janos has wisely included commentaries and observations by friends and Yeager's wife Glennis. All contribute to the conclusion that their hero belongs to a breed apart, and it is not hard to understand why. The myth of transcendence inherent in flying separates those who do from those who don't. It is as if Yeager and his comrades evolved from birds while the earthbound dropped from trees to become prisoners of gravity. --By R.Z. Sheppard
This prosaic reality, though, doesn’t translate very well into fiction—especially fast-moving fiction. Hence Professors Langdon and Massey—and hence, eventually, my roommates’ and my Latin verb-declining, kung fu-fighting heroes. There is something strange about propagating a myth that you no longer believe in, especially when it’s more or less about you. But if there’s one thing that Miracle on 34th Street—and, come to think of it, the lukewarm reviews for Ross Douthat’s debut tome?...