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Charles Frazier's 1997 best seller, Cold Mountain, is The Odyssey compressed, Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge expanded to saga dimensions. As much as Inman aches to return to a woman he barely knew, but knew he loved, the novel's vivid prose needed to be turned into moving pictures. Paging Anthony Minghella, adapter-director of The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley...
...Leave it to the Indians to take the congested saga of ?I Married a Dead Man? - distressed young woman, fatal train wreck, her deception of a loving adoptive family, extortion by the old beau - and pack it with three times the plot, plus songs. Since the movie is both fabulous and obscure, I?ll spell out what happens. This may take a while...
...gossipy feel of Dogeaters, and its two story lines never manage to cohere. Although Hagedorn is clearly engaged with the effect of Spanish and American colonialism on her homeland, the reader wonders about her motive in basing the book on these two historical episodes. In the Philippines, the Tasaday saga is largely remembered for the international publicity?and later embarrassment?it wrought. Apocalypse Now was the next watershed of attention from abroad. Perhaps Hagedorn believes that foreign readers?she left the Philippines in 1962 and now lives in New York?need such recognizable signposts to navigate a work of Philippine...
...past helps us take a break from the harshness of present-day life and travel back in time. Anyone who tries to downplay the theft or destruction of cultural artifacts is seriously misguided. Those who are involved in this heinous business must be severely punished. Antiquities reveal the saga of a bygone era. Arvind K. Pandey Allahabad, India...
...better," spears cheerfully announces, swatting away the hair curler dangling down her brow as a stylist and a makeup artist knock elbows trying to get at her head. It's Monday, Nov. 10, and she's back in a New York City hotel - the very one where this global saga began - preparing for tonight's crucial album-launching showcase on MTV's Total Request Live. And she does appear to be her perky old self again, if not entirely recovered. Her nose is a little stuffy and her eyes slightly watery, but after a week in her mom's care...