Word: odyssey
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...making Lonesome Dove, de Passe rejected the TV industry wisdom that westerns no longer draw a big audience. All three major networks initially turned down the rights to produce McMurtry's 843-page prairie odyssey. Even the author warned de Passe, "You probably wouldn't like it." Intrigued, de Passe eventually snared movie and TV rights...
...sympathetic viewer feels that way too, tracing Marlow's life and fantasies like a truth-seeking gumshoe. "I wanted to make an odyssey," Potter says, "in which a man in extreme pain and anguish tries to assemble the bits of his life. That's the way you have to deal with physical pain, you know. You have to stand outside it and say, 'O.K., destroy me if you must, but I'm going somewhere else.' Those acute, extreme forms of illness almost force you to divide yourself between the suffering animal and the human being who has to moderate...
...affection at bay by piling barricades of useless information around himself and by insisting, maddeningly, monotonously, monomaniacally, that certain routines, involving meals and TV viewing, be rigorously observed. Charlie abducts him, hoping to gain control of his inheritance, and they set off by car on a cross-country odyssey -- each in his way a manchild in an unpromising landscape...
Palmer makes little pretense to literalism, preferring to relate the composer's spiritual odyssey through stark images. Shot mostly in gritty black and white, the film often turns phantasmagorical; near the end, the ghost of * Stalin appears to the dying composer and tells him, "I am the enemy you loved." For all Shostakovich's hatred of the dictator, Palmer seems to be saying, without Stalin there would have been no intimate, brooding string quartets, no enigmatic, valedictory Fifteenth Symphony. By giving Shostakovich something to hate and fear, Stalin turned him into a great composer. The symphonies dedicated to the state...
Homeward Bound also co-sponsored the city Hunger/Homeless Awareness Week last week, and members ran a free showing of "God Bless the Child" to about 35 people at the Cambridge public library. The movie traced the odyssey of a mother and daughter who lose their home, then move from shelter to shelter, and finally must separate. By the end, most of the audience was in tears...