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...black and white footage rolls, images of a bygone era flash past: signs shouting “Stop the War!” and protesters of the 1960s beaten back by police, symbols of the American fight for justice and liberty. Cut to actor Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Magnolia), as he sits in front of his television set, scruffily unshaven, face frozen in a bored trance as he observes the protest footage and sighs, “I’ve always had an aversion to politics.” So begins director Donovan Leitch?...
Based on the novel by Philip Roth, The Human Stain follows Silk through four major stages of self-identification: anger, denial, acceptance and confession. It’s not Faunia who reveals Silk’s secrets to us, however, but the reticent Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise), a reclusive writer whom Silk coaxes back to literary life. Part investigative journalist, part close friend, it is this would-be biographer who tells his story, discovers the truth behind Silk’s carefully engineered identity, and decides to write a book about Silk’s twisted and difficult journey from...
Stop reading immediately if you do not know Philip Roth's 2000 novel or have not been tipped by the think pieces generated by the book and Robert Benton's elegant, thoughtful film. (Really. Stop now!) For most of his life, Coleman has held in a central fact about himself--one that should make him proud but gave him shame. He is black, though he looks white. And since his teens he has renounced his race and his family to "pass" as a Caucasian. He told no one; only he can appreciate the stark irony of his predicament...
...Sarah Roy, 21, a trainer at the Keepers of the Wild animal sanctuary in Golden Valley, Ariz. While it might sound like a bizarre coincidence, the fact is that tiger attacks are not all that rare in the U.S. Between 1998 and 2001, according to a study by Philip Nyhus of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., there were no fewer than seven fatal tiger attacks and at least 20 more that required emergency care. Since 1999, two children--a girl, 10, and a boy, 3--have died in the jaws of pet tigers in Texas alone...
...Philip D. Powell ’06 said he put 15 posters in Eliot House Saturday evening, and as of yesterday, only six remained...