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...novel, the protagonist Rosalie’s circle of friends have formed the “First Born,” an acting troupe of friends and lovers who live in or around the East Village. Together these struggling actors watch as their friendships on and off stage adapt to the crises and successes of their careers...
...Zedginidze’s case sounds like something out of Kafka, with an innocent protagonist nonetheless enduring punishment under a supposedly fair system, the reverse has just as frequently occurred. Convicted sex offenders have routinely received punishments less severe than expulsion from the Ad Board and the Faculty. The most severe case, when admitted rapist D. Drew Douglas was “required to withdraw” by the Ad Board, elicited such widespread campus outrage in 1999 that a meeting of the full Faculty dismissed him outright by a wide margin. Yet this is the exception to the rule...
...England in the 1890s and features an all-star supergroup culled from the pages of late-Victorian pulp fiction. Among the characters are Captain Nemo (the mariner of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Dr. Jekyll and his monstrous alter ego, Mr. Hyde, and the sinister protagonist of The Invisible Man (another terrible movie). Writer Alan Moore and illustrator Kevin O'Neill pit them against the invading Martians of Wells' The War of the Worlds in a battle royal for the fate of jolly old England...
...every author writes the same story over and over. Woolrich surely did. He?d latch onto a plot, then refine it, try correcting its flaws, in a later novel. In ?Bride? he created a vengeance machine, a killer of all killers; in the 1948 ?Rendezvous in Black? his bitter protagonist decides to kill, not the five men responsible for his girlfriend?s death, but the person each of the presumed guilty men loves most, so that they will live out their lives in grief, as he has. (In 1972 Italian director Umberto Lenzi filmed the novel - without this poetic twist...
Pete writes the sections of the magazine people actually read. The brains behind the brawn-fest that was the famed Chickwich Challenge, and the tortured protagonist of Say Hi To Pete, someday his Gossip Guy will contain juicy rumors that do not actually relate to his roommates or Crimson President Amit R. Paley...