Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Susan Sarandon playing Mom to Natalie Portman as the two make a painful-but-powerful odyssey to Beverly Hills from their Wisconsin hometown. Natalie's the adolescent daughter playing challenger to her Mom's new lifestyle as the two try to adjust to life in the capital of glamour. So for the soundtrack we'd expect...what? A selection of painful-but-powerful music from female musicians, detailing the trials and tribulations of adolescent uprooting and the love-hate mother-daughter relationship? That's exactly what we get. The soundtrack includes a smattering of love and/or loss songs, featuring Sarah...
...makes it more complex, and (unfortunately) inserts a happy ending every time. (It's only in the last decade that Disney has begun to attempt adapting novels, with varied results.) Some other examples of short tales being made into good, or at least successful, films include 2001: A Space Odyssey (expanded after the film's production into a whole novel) and The Lawnmower Man. John Campbell's short sci-fi story The Thing spawned a classic 1950s black-and-white horror film as well as an excellent John Carpenter gore flick...
...visions of The Future were carrying that theme even farther. Stanley Kubrick immortalized the year some people feel is the real millennial year in his movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," a film clearly set in The Future. In it, HAL, a dangerous supercomputer, shows that technology could be destructive, warning us to be careful as we progress. (You know, I've always thought those new iMacs looked a little suspicious...
...program also will focus on the emotional odyssey Gates embarked on when he returned to the cradle of black civilization...
Reflecting after the forum on his years at the College, Navarrette--author of A Darker Shade of Crimson: Odyssey of a Harvard Chicano--said he was proud of the symbolic significance of the evening's panel...