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...second half of the film belongs to Delon, who, separated from Philipe and Marg, starts his own odyssey across Italy on which he attempts to emulate every extravagance of their decadent lifestyle. It is here that Tom's character is at last developed. The extremity of his ambitions and envy is demonstrated by his tigerlike eating--at times of tension he is seen devouring a peach in three angry bites, gnashing down a blazing chicken straight from the oven with his bare hands, slicing and gulping down long meaty lengths of sausage. All the while his sculpted good looks, strong...
...dark selves is supported by David Hartwell, an editor at Tor Books. "The alien represents metaphorically what's in the real world. The aliens in '50s films often represented communists--faceless invaders who were going to take over our country. The mysterious beings of 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968 represent our transcendent future. Independence Day sounds like the old form of sci-fi: the foreign invaders intend to wipe out our cultural heritage--ethnic cleansing. They don't want to come in and settle. They want to take over...
...AITKEN, senior editor of TIME's Society section, doubled recently as editor of Mad Genius: The Odyssey, Pursuit, and Capture of the Unabomber Suspect (Warner Books; $5.99), an in-depth look at the terror-bomb saga prepared at lightning speed by TIME staff members and shipped to stores this week. Others raced to put out "quickie" books on the case; ours not only combined fresh reporting and thoughtful writing, but it also got there first. The 11-day effort left Aitken newly impressed by what first-rate team journalism can achieve. "I hesitate to say this, because I treasure...
...ODYSSEY OF A MAD GENIUS...
...sense this because Blue, a struggling songwriter, is so persevering; he has spent a good chunk of his career composing and producing a musical version of the Odyssey. The title: Odyssey! It's a fitting project. Blue has a free-spirited twin brother named Red ("the most fugitive color") and in essence has spent his romantic life trying to go home, trying to recapture the incomparable bond of his youth. The question that riddles him: "Are twins, or lovers, or while we're at it since I don't know how they're matched up either, figure skating partners...