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...childhood. It's the same thing with these films." Producer Paula Wagner, who is developing a big-budget update of Mission: Impossible with Tom Cruise, goes further. "Television has become our contemporary mythology," she says. Making her case for Mission: Impossible, Wagner notes that Shakespeare based his plays on Plutarch's Lives. "The source material may add depth and richness, but ultimately the source is irrelevant. What matters is the quality of the film...
...life of Mark Antony, Plutarch produced one hilariously elegant sentence. It turned the loverboy's debauches into a kind of civic virtue: "((Antony)) never feared the audit of his copulations, but let nature have her way, and left behind him the foundations of many families...
...Plutarch as spin doctor: that was not drunken lust in Antony's eye, but, ahem, dynastic vision...
Truman lived in Independence from age 6 to 21, the formative years. His circle was made up of well-to-do youngsters, and his intellectual companions in a superb high school were Mark Twain, Dickens, Plutarch, Tennyson and Shakespeare. He studied Chopin, Mendelssohn and Paderewski on the piano. His heroes included Cincinnatus, Scipio and Cyrus II the Great. He never played football, basketball or baseball. You might even say that in his place and time he was elitist...
...When you're a historian, you know things, and you don't even know why you know them." Preparing for the day's sparring, greasing himself like a Channel swimmer and admiring the reflection in a long mirror, he sounds almost bookish, until Rooney turns up a copy of Plutarch's Lives and Tyson inquires archly, "Who wrote that? Rembrandt...