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Despite the fact that Mario Puzo sleeps with the fishes and has been been doing so since 1999, this week brings us a brand-new novel set in the rich, bloody, curiously seductive world of the original, pre-Sopranos gangsters, the Corleone family. Just when we thought we were out--say it with me--they pull us back...
...working at home, 700 km from London. The relationship began to fray only after he started asking for sex. Not the real kind - their relationship remained entirely professional - but the fictional kind. He decided to try his - or rather, their - hand at fiction. "We are thinking about a beautiful novel," he told her. "It will have a beautiful cover." He had his own ideas about what would go inside. "Have we reached the orgamsi [sic] yet?" he would ask, as Erdal struggled to meet his quota of sex scenes. She had a loftier view of literature. "I had believed...
...redemption of a long-estranged parent is hardly a novel plot in contemporary cinema; it has congealed to the point where every hug, tear and clumsy montage seem carefully choreographed. Refreshingly, Around the Bend, reveals an organic push and pull that approaches the mostly shapeless narrative of real relationships that is only reinforced by the subtle performances of screen legends Christopher Walken and Sir Michael Caine...
Between Dylan’s seemingly ubiquitous presence and what Prof. Thomas calls the “never ending tour,” his appearance in a Victoria Secret commercial and one of his song’s close lyrical resemblance to passages from a Japanese Yakuza novel, the Troubadour has sparked some heated controversy...
...fact that he took these lyrics from a Japanese gangster novel and made them into something quintessentially American, that’s Love and Theft,” he argues. “He takes it, he transforms it, he makes it his own. This happens in great art everywhere...