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...hero, adding layer upon layer of sometimes miscellaneous information, in vaguely chronological order. Though Proust always insisted his masterwork was not a roman à clef, Davenport-Hines shows the parallels between Proust and his fictional narrator, real figures and the fabricated ones. Born in Paris to a rich Jewish mother and a Catholic physician father, Proust was a nervous, asthmatic child who grew up to be, in Davenport-Hines' phrase, "the most famous valetudinarian in literary history." His mother was his life's obsession. His father, ironically, made his reputation studying emotional disorders. Proust did military service before throwing himself...
...moguls really wants to make: the moneymakers. Are the box office winners and the Oscar nominees even members of the same family? Yes, both are children of the movie industry; but they?re siblings without much in common. The Narnias and Wedding Crasherses are the son who got rich as a corporate lawyer, and the Capotes and Good Nights are the daughter who quit graduate school to become an inner-city social worker...
...Jeong ’07. Jeong, who is also co-concertmaster of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, outfiddled a bevy of other musicians this past January to win the BachSoc’s annual two-day Concerto Competition. This Saturday’s concert will contribute to the already-rich history of the Bach Society Orchestra, an organization that has nurtured the likes of cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and composer John Adams ’71. Despite Mozart’s not-so-recent death in 1791, the ever-lively BachSoc’s performance promises...
...have to pay the price for all the crunk copycats that follow in their wake. Sometimes they are good (Dem Franchize Boyz), and sometimes they are bad (also Dem Franchize Boyz, depending on your state of mind). This album is just another way for Dupri to get rich off of someone else’s original sound. But in this case, that’s okay...
...film's title announces its intentions. It's a collision, an L.A. pileup, of people and prejudices. The dozen-plus major characters include cops, thugs, politicians, strugglers and stragglers, the rich and the poor of all ethnicities--the melting pot that bubbles over in the film's schematic, 36-hour story line. The viewpoint is Manichaean--black and white, if you will--but with a twist. Haggis says not that there are good people and bad people, but that we are all capable of being both. A racist cop (Oscar nominee Matt Dillon) can rudely grope a terrified black woman...