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...little thing and a proper tomboy. Keira says exactly what she thinks and she has an incredible lively quick wit. She’s very bright and she has a grand independence of spirit. THC: What pressures, either personally or externally, did you face in adapting a greatly beloved novel, especially after there’s been a great adaptation by the BBC? JW: I was quite lucky in that I hadn’t seen the BBC version and I was coming to it quite fresh. It wasn’t a book I had lived with...
...Price on Amazon.com for an inscribed copy of I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby's often kinky novel, The Apprentice...
...month visit wasn't. He was allowed to take a long look at the world's most guarded state. And after he left, Delisle set about recreating his experience using the medium he knows best: cartoons. The result, Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, is a graphic novel that is a fascinating and hilarious sketch of his time in the country. Delisle admits that he didn't see anything the government didn't want him to see. But from what he was allowed to witness, he strings together a series of remarkable scenes. Many are seemingly trivial-a hotel worker...
...flesh on those stick villains. In addition to Syriana and Sleeper Cell, there's The War Within, a film about a plan to blow up New York City's Grand Central Terminal, and Paradise Now, about Palestinian suicide bombers. Salman Rushdie has taken up the subject in his latest novel, Shalimar the Clown...
...motives of the terrorists vary, from war atrocities to personal woes; in Rushdie's novel a Kashmiri Muslim murders a U.S. ambassador, but it's less a political act than payback for a personal betrayal. Often U.S. actions play a role. War Within's Hassan is radicalized after American agents snatch him in Paris as a terrorism suspect and send him to Pakistan to be tortured. In Syriana a young Pakistani immigrant can't find work in a rich Persian Gulf nation, so he joins an extremist madrasah, but the movie's sprawling story also faults the U.S. for supporting...