Word: novelization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Soon, the characters the media created invent their own media. The independent counsel writes a "narrative" that is sold as a novel in airport book-stores, and is compared by literary scholars to Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina. Congress releases a film in which the main character--the president--hems and haws and gets caught up in the definition of what...
...Beloved, the highly-anticipated adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel, slavery is explored in a subtle, almost metaphorical fashion. It is an exercise in psychology, exploring the mind of Morrison's steel-willed protagonist Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), a former slave who now lives as a free woman in Ohio in the 1870s. Beloved is a handsome, classy production that is distinguished in every possible way, but it is also a cold film. The screenplay grapples admirably with Morrison's convoluted narrative but can never get to the heart of it. The saving grace of the movie is the renowned cast...
Jamaica's cast of characters is worthy of a Dickens novel, except Dickens' characters never said "ganga" so much. Along the beach, each salesman has a name appropriate to his task. Chef grills the jerk chicken; Jelly-Man sells jellied coconuts off his cart. The beachfront entrepreneur with the most pedestrian name is John, a re-located Chicagoan who runs one of the chillest open-air bars in Negril. Why did he give up life in a first-world country to become a self-proclaimed "beach bum"? "Mid-life crisis," he says. His friend, Hills-Man, comes to the beach...
...propositions made by local men to male tourists is what Doctor Fabulous calls a "Hexchange"--"I'll trade you one of my black women for one of your white women." This sort of racial sexual fantasy would probably be best left to middle-aged couples in a John Updike novel...
...Boys play games with your heart? What about 'N Sync--are they tearin' up your heart? Are you still hangin' tough with the NKOTB? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you need to (a) shut off "Dawson's Creek," finish the latest Sweet Valley High novel and get into therapy, and (b) book it over to Davis Square for the Beatlemania tribute. Celebrate the Fab Four that paved the way for all your fave guy groups, and pick up a CD your roommates can tolerate on the way. 8 p.m., Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square...