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...thing for literary adaptation, and he also had a knack for it. He could translate the feel of a book onto the screen without making the viewer feel like they were reading a book. He showed off his skills yet again with 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel and the first of three films he made with Jude Law. "He was a brilliantly talented writer and director who wrote dialog that was a joy to speak and then put it onto the screen in a way that always looked effortless," Law said...
...ideas we explore are wide-ranging but affect all of us. John Cloud explains how the idea of authenticity--we know it when we see it (or at least we think we do)--is shaping not only our consumer culture but also the presidential campaign. Amanda Ripley explores how counter-terrorism experts are using former terrorists to prevent the radicalization of new ones. Bryan Walsh has a fascinating piece about the idea of geoengineering: how, instead of fixing or curing the earth, we might re-engineer it on a massive scale to solve climate change. Other pieces include Justin...
...Unthinkable, TIME staff writer Amanda Ripley's book on human behavior in disasters, is due out in June...
...perhaps because Affleck took a long time to make a serious movie after Good Will Hunting (while he was saving the world, co-star Matt Damon made The Talented Mr. Ripley), people pegged him as an action star, not a thinker. And when he went gallivanting around in camel-hair coats and Bentleys and had news of his engagement broken on Primetime Live, people figured he was full of himself. It takes only a tiny shift in perception before everything a person does can be misconstrued. Just like that, the assets Affleck had relied on became liabilities. His spirited antics...
...turned into major trouble for Hillary Clinton's campaign, which fears the revival of Clinton scandal fatigue. After all, even if people don't remember Travelgate, they probably recall the Lincoln Bedroom theme from the Clinton Administration: a reckless pursuit of political cash that led to shady Talented Mr. Ripley types turning up as major donors. Hsu fits the model: he came out of nowhere just a few years ago and quickly became a Democratic fund-raising hotshot, attaining the status of a "HillRaiser," which is how the top financial "bundlers" for the Democratic front runner are described...