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...cloning. That's why Friday the 13th begat nine sequels, A Nightmare on Elm Street had six, the two franchise villains faced off in Freddy vs. Jason, and James Bond has saved the world in 23 hits since 1962. Meanwhile, the Harry Potter series is headed for a Proustian seven. The first four film adaptations of J.K. Rowling's epic rank fourth, ninth, 10th and 17th on the all-time box-office list. The fifth, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, will be calling all wizards on July...
...lizards sunning themselves on the branches," but a spiritual realm painted on an operatic scale, where the ancestral rainbow serpent forges the land, a river of fairy people, the yinbirras, rushes tsunami-like through the bush, and a cyclone hits the coast as an act of payback. Wright is Proustian in her love of detail but postmodern in her playfulness: " 'Where hid reality?' Elias asked in the Pricklebush, yet who could say what existed in one ordinary coastal town plonked at the top of the nation...
With its assortments of all-but-forgotten childhood treats from the 1950s and '60s like pumpkin seeds, licorice pipes, candy necklaces, Necco Wafers and Boston Baked Beans, Groovy Candies is one of several nostalgia candy sellers that are unabashedly hawking such Proustian moments. Sales are booming: Groovy Candies' have risen from $50,000 to $3 million since the company was started in 1998. And it's not just candy. With the power of the Internet, other purveyors of childhood memories are resurrecting '50s-era toys and games, including wooden alphabet blocks with old-fashioned lettering and Fisher-Price Snoopy pull...
...change your life. Cate Blanchett's character in The Life Aquatic attempts to read In Search of Lost Time to her unborn child. Proust is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that blogger Tom Tomorrow created 'Spot the Pretentious Proust Reference', a game to seek out the Proustian name-droppings in the New York Times. Indeed, if you search Proust on the NYT website, you'll find 1,688 references since 1981, almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years...
...Sucks", "Mmmm...cookies", and "Marcel's not gay." So what have we learned? What does Proust teach us about time, memory, love, feeling? The way that he's referenced in pop culture now would have you think that he knows either nothing or everything. With such a hodgepodge of Proustian meanings, references, ideas and impressions being thrown around in the media, it's difficult to synthesize a clear, significant lesson from Proust...