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...Adam & Steve,” an independent debut film from Craig Chester, is essentially “Brokeback Mountain” for people who don’t like cowboys. Or acting. Or plot...
After a while, the two-dimensional acting will completely and utterly bore you. There is barely a palpable plot – two gay men in New York City, Adam (Chester) and Steve (Malcolm Gets) must overcome an animalistic sexual attraction to find true love – and nary a trace of dinginess ever creeps into the East Village setting...
Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum is selling off a 60-acre plot of land to the town of Weston, Mass., provided the town can find the funds to meet the $27 million price tag. The Case Estates property has been a part of the Arboretum’s holdings for over 60 years now. Robert E. Cook ’68, director of the Arnold Arboretum, explained that the decision had been made to let go of the property because there was little justification for keeping it. “When I came in 17 years...
...told, this is a children’s story—a fairy tale, more or less, built on archetypal stock characters and a simplistic, familiar plot. And if readers—particularly readers who go to school with her—associate the real Kaavya Viswanathan with the caricature she has created in Opal Mehta, the shadow of her novel may prove to be a hard one to overcome...
...It’s hard to avoid tracing the similarities, though, and despite what Viswanathan has said, one must wonder, is Opal actually self-referential—a sort of “Mehta”-fiction? Where does its plot end and Viswanathan’s real life begin...