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...will honor the pleas of the film's press agents and not reveal who's who and what happens. Suffice to say that this adaptation of the graphic novel by John Wagner has four outbreaks of jolting violence to give some kick to a penetrating character study; and that the real Joey Cusack has a savory showdown with his mob-boss brother Richie (played by William Hurt with a rich pleasure in menace). Mortensen, whose Tom is as stalwart as his Middle-Earth Aragorn, is completely convincing and utterly hunky -a man worth loving, no matter...
...uneasy peace ever since. Yet it is an English-born woman - a former globetrotting advertising executive now raising a family in Provence, France; she was only 11 when Sands died - who has dared to revive those dark days. Louise Dean's This Human Season (Scribner; 374 pages) is a novel constructed around the events leading up to the hunger strikes. "The one gift I bring to my books is my ignorance," she says, enthusiastically blowing cigarette smoke toward the ceiling of a London hotel lounge. While researching a follow-up to her award-winning first novel, Becoming Strangers (published last...
When you're writing a novel, you have to live in the shadow of giants like Dickens and Proust and Roth. But video games are only 30 years old, and they don't have their Dickens yet. Or do they? "Creating a game," Laidlaw says, "there's always this feeling that you're going into unknown territory." --By Lev Grossman
When President Bush returned from his bike ride last week carrying I am Charlotte Simmons under his arm, observers seemed more worried about whether he had completed the novel than whether the Leader of the Free World should be reading and mountain biking simultaneously. The President was supposed to have finished Tom Wolfe's critique of political correctness on college campuses months ago, so why was he hanging on to it now? White House aides were quick to put minds at ease. Bush's biking partner for the day, Mike Wood, had borrowed the book-which includes ample accounts...
...Where the Truth Lies can be quickly dismissed. There's piquancy in the plot (from a Rupert Holmes novel), about a blond corpse discovered in the hotel suite of a comedy team - smooth Vince Collins (Colin Firth) and manic Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) - and the efforts of a young journalist (Alison Lohmann) to solve the case. Such a tale, set in two periods, the glitzy 1950s and shaggy 70s, might have had some period effervescence. But the concoction here is flatter than a long-opened bottle of sham...