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...with photo-copied cover art at video stores in Chicago and San Francisco (always out, of course), and had read with relish the lyrical synopsis of the film that is among the best recountings of any film in literature: three pages halfway through Don DeLillo's opus on the American cultural landscape of the 20th century, Underworld. So what's all the fuss about? The movie documents a sex, drugs and rock n' roll party that's over despite most not wanting to admit it. It presents a portrait of the band tired of touring and feigning interest...
...submitting an entry. “I have a lot of ideas. It’s easy to tell which ones are bad, but it’s hard to know if any are good.” Seitz would not reveal much about the progress of his magnum opus, but he said he noticed a trend in his ideas. “I find myself straying toward something really morbid,” he says. “I’ll probably end up painting some sort of death.” The stories were due before Thanksgiving...
Body talk is relevant here, because it's the most obvious hint that Casino Royale means to be a very different Bond movie. The 21st in the official series produced by the Broccoli family (two others--a spoof called Casino Royale and a freelance Sean Connery opus, Never Say Never Again--were made outside the fold), this one tries to rejuvenate a 44-year-old franchise that was showing signs of tired blood and losing its appeal to the young-male action-film demographic. The writers--Bond veterans Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, along with the ubiquitous Paul Haggis...
...exceptionally private Pynchon, whose brilliant post-modern novels include V, The Crying of Lot 49 and the magnum opus Gravity's Rainbow, hasn't released a new book since 1997's Mason & Dixon. Only a handful of photos exist of the author, 69, mainly from his school days and the most recent a dodgy paparazzi-type shot in 1998. A CNN crew had filmed him the previous year, but the news network decided not to identify him after Pynchon, who reportedly lives in New York, called to complain. "Let me be unambiguous," he told the news channel. "I prefer...
...advisor is annoyed that I’ve been working ahead, and he’s run out of related reading to assign me. What can I do to fill the time till my inevitable acceptance of the Hoopes Prize? Could you suggest some entertaining diversions from my magnum opus, preferably ones that would take up most of my waking hours...