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...often controversial—figures to Religion 1529, “Personal Choice and Global Transformation” to be questioned by students, said that he invited Dan Mathews, vice president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, to the class because of Mathews’ novel ideas for animal rights activism...
...BOOKS: A novel dares us to fall for a misanthrope; art-world tales are back, and the subtext...
...larger-than-life figures - Moses, Hamlet, Gandhi. "He embodies his characters," says Perelman. Ben Kingsley disappears, and another man comes to life. "He's a chameleon." Kingsley's latest guise, as exiled Iranian Colonel Massoud Behrani in House of Sand and Fog, adapted from Andre Dubus III's 1999 novel, has earned him a Best Actor nomination at this Sunday's Academy Awards. He's pleased with his fourth Oscar nod, and he'd love to add another trophy to the one he took home for Gandhi (1982). But his ambitions are bigger than any industry prize...
...movie horror flicks, including the little-remembered “Humanoids from the Deep.” His pet projects, though, were his historically-themed screenplays.“Everyone who’d look at them would tell me, ‘You ought to write a novel,’” Martin says...
Much of that may have to do with Dan, who frequently took his Dad to classes and to meals at Lowell Dining Hall while the novel was in progress. The younger Martin also took pictures of the Yard to aid artist Wendell Miner in creating the cover design...