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...saga of a former Harvard graduate student charged with manslaughter took another twist on Friday when the judge declared a mistrial after a deadlocked jury failed to deliver a decision...
...mistrial means Alexander Pring-Wilson will likely be granted a third trial, continuing the four-year legal saga that began when he fatally stabbed an 18-year-old hotel cook outside of a Western Avenue pizzeria...
...Line Cinema, flush from the surprise megahit status of the first Lord of the Rings film, bought the rights to the Pullman saga - and promptly started fretting about the God problem. Retain the books' central conflict, and stoke the wrath of America's Christian Right. Delete it, and risk alienating Pullman's fan base, which is not so large here as in Britain. (The books had already been slightly redacted in their U.S. editions, which cut passages about Lyra's budding sexuality...
...Instead, get your own vision of the saga by reading the book. That's where fantasy comes alive, in the collaboration of the author and his audience of one. Often, the best movies play on the reader's own mindscreen...
What is truly mind-boggling about Wilson's extraordinary saga is that not one word of it leaked to the press. He credits this to the bipartisan spirit in Congress at the time. "It never leaked because nobody wanted it to," he says. "Everybody was pulling for [the mujahedin]. It was amazing and will never, never, ever happen again...