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...dark side” of mother-daughter relationships in Jane Austen’s novels. But Randall discourages comparisons between her writing and her life.“The character Windsor Armstrong [from Randall’s second novel, “Pushkin and the Queen of Spades”] does attend Harvard University, and she does bear some similarities to aspects of my life,” she says. But, “I am a writer of fiction.”‘LARGER THAN LIFE’Starting freshman week, Randall?...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alice Randall | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...tourist (Steve Buscemi) learns to his peril not to make eye contact with that mysterious young couple on the opposite platform. Another American in Paris, Sofia Coppola, was given the run of Versailles to film Marie Antoinette, about the Austrian girl who became the last Queen of France. Coppola's conceit is to reconceive the court of Louis XVI as a gossip party for rich, vapid teenagers. The film, starring Kirsten Dunst, got a few raucous boos, sending many critics rushing to its defense. Their gallantry was sweet but ill-conceived, for this lame satire is both a parody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Highs and Lows | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

...short period," says Bob Cook, president of Twentieth Television, the development and production unit of Fox. Cook has adapted two telenovelas to air in September: Table for Three, a love triangle involving two brothers in a Mafia family, and Fashion House, starring Bo Derek as the powerful queen of a fashion empire. Each show will air daily for 13 weeks, with recap episodes on the weekends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Telenovela Revolution | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

...Blanchett as a couple tested by near tragedy. The film's ambition is imposing, the acting often illuminating, the pileup of coincidences finally exasperating. Marie Antoinette Sofia Coppola reimagines the court of Louis XVI as a gossip party for rich, vapid teenagers. The film, starring Kirsten Dunst as the Queen, above, got a few raucous boos, sending many critics to the defense of this lame satire, which may mean to make fun of emptiness but actually embodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cannes Highlight Reel | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

...have vast support in the black community. There's no black person I can't get to, can't talk to or who won't support me. Over the past three months, Queen Latifah and Malik Yoba have done commercials for us for free. We're talking right now with Kanye West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEO SPEAKS: OneUnited's Giant Steps | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

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