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...Odyssey has been promoted with endless TV ads, a tie-in book and a Website game. The movie's budget went largely to transporting hundreds of cast and crew members to remote, often roadless locales in Turkey and Malta and manufacturing special effects like the rendering of the god Poseidon as a talking tidal wave...
DIED. STIRLING SILLIPHANT, 78, TV and film writer; in Bangkok. His screenplays ranged from the socially conscious Oscar winner In the Heat of the Night to the haunting fable Charly to the flat-out thriller The Poseidon Adventure...
...postgreenhouse future. The ice caps have melted, and the world is a vast briny sea. Most people live in giant docking stations, atolls, built on water. Prowling the sea like Poseidon's angels are the Smokers, bad guys led by the one-eyed Deacon (Dennis Hopper). The Smokers are looking for Enola (Tina Majorino), a 10-year-old with a map tattoo that may point the way to dry land. With her guardian Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn), the girl hitches a ride on the trimaran of an outsider--part man, part fish--known as the Mariner (Costner). If anyone in this...
Mighty Odysseus--Homeric hero, victorious conqueror, cunning adventurer--beat the Cyclops, overcame the temptations of female goddesses and survived the wrath of Poseidon. Yet even mighty Odysseus had to tie himself to the mast of his ship in order to resist the alluring songs of the Sirens, a band of lyrical mermaids who sought to destroy...
Built as they are almost entirely from dialogue, the novels of William Gaddis are like those scenes in a Robert Altman movie where everyone talks over everyone else while each tongue is tripping on itself. For A Frolic of His Own (Poseidon Press; 586 pages; $25), Gaddis practically rebuilds the Tower of Babel from the sounds and furies of the late 20th century. Drunken soliloquies, air-brained chatter and large, heavy blocks of legal gibberish are piled atop one another. One character is haunted by the thought that "reality may not exist at all except in the words in which...