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Soillis is overcome by emotion when reminiscing about the life he has led in the Square. He exudes passion for the career which has led him across continents and across languages—when, he says, little save his determination and conviction have sustained...
...recent essay “Who is that mad black woman,” Roger Ebert reports that his one-star review of Diary elicited more angry correspondence than any other film he has ever reviewed—including Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Passion of the Christ combined...
Diary, like Passion and Fahrenheit before it, has become emblematic of a larger cultural divide in American society. The latter films exacerbated tensions between red and blue America; Diary has inflamed resentments between black and white...
...brave [a trip to the store] ... she found more problems. The mini-mart was out of semi-skimmed. The milk aisle was crawling with human beings." Ultimately, not even her special bond with Bessi can prevent Georgia from being overpowered by inner demons. Evans writes with the pained passion that can only come from personal experience. "We did hold on to that magical quality," she says of her relationship with Paula. "But it was just different as we got older. You value that relationship just as much as you did, but you [become] aware that you can't depend...
...book comes from a place close to home. Certainly the contented side of the neurosurgeon comes from the man who imagined him. At 56, McEwan swings up and down the stairs of his house with the ease of a man who still does his share of hiking, a passion of his. He has a Booker Prize for his 1998 novel Amsterdam, and several of his novels, including The Comfort of Strangers and Enduring Love, have beenturned into pretty good films. Moreover, judging from his descriptions of Perowne's marital bliss--"What a stroke of luck, that the woman he loves...