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Forrest Gump is nobody special, but he meets special people. In his 30-year odyssey through recent American history, this crippled Alabama lad with a 75 IQ bumps into Elvis and John Lennon, J.F.K. and L.B.J., Nixon and Mao. Forrest is an innocent on loan to a cynical world, and in the movie bearing his name he would make little sense if he were played by anyone but Tom Hanks...
COVER: The Bloody Odyssey of O.J. Simpson...
...entrance to the graveyard, he paid his respects at a small chapel built to commemorate those who had perished in the totalitarianism whirlwind of the '30s. Two young priests were reading the Orthodox "Eternal Memory" service from a prayer book. It was one of many symbolic moments on an odyssey that has become a kind of traveling metaphor: himself a survivor of eight years in the Gulag, Solzhenitsyn is recognized as the person most responsible for bringing the crimes of that era to light. Obviously moved, he crossed his chest repeatedly, solemnly noting the plaque on the chapel's side...
...Odyssey...
Burton, however, is content to merely enumerate the events along the way of this amazing odyssey. From time to time, the author permits himself the liberty of an observation -- referring to a 1940 letter from Bernstein to fellow gay composer David Diamond, in which Bernstein claims he has forsaken sex for art, Burton notes, "There is something uncharacteristically hysterical about his self-pitying tone" -- but such analytical moments are lost in the flood of numbing chronological detail...