Word: patheticism
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Penelope Cruz is one of the year’s Best Actress nominees—deservedly so—yet the Best Actress prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival went to the entire female cast of “Volver.” The unorthodox sharing of the Cannes...
One has to wonder after reading “Arlington Park” whether the author, Rachel Cusk, is a penetrating analyst of human psychology—or just an embittered feminist.Whichever category Cusk falls into, her newest novel is certainly perceptive. It is a surprisingly philosophical book in which...
He mentioned strange conversations with the woman (her name has not been made public) who set the McMartin case in motion by complaining that her two-year-old son had been molested. In her talks with Stevens, he said, she claimed that she had been followed and that her dog...
With encouragement from Joan, Simon in his spare time wrote Come Blow Your Horn, about two young brothers moving away from home and trying to leave the family waxed-fruit business for something more artistic. It took 1,200 pages of drafts?some the product of Simon's compulsive perfectionism...
Even before the film opened in Berlin this week, it had sparked a huge debate in the German commentariat. Critics attacked it for making light of Germany's past. They questioned the idea of humanizing Hitler, even as a pathetic loser, and of treating the Holocaust in a comedy. Rolf...