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...could call Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake (Houghton Mifflin; 291 pages) a multigenerational saga of the immigrant experience, but that makes it sound like a tedious prime-time mini-series instead of what it is: a delicate, moving first novel. It begins in Cambridge, Mass., with the birth of a son to the Gangulis, an Indian couple who recently arrived in America. New England seems a chilly dreamworld to them compared with their native Calcutta. "Ashoke and Ashima live the lives of the extremely aged," Lahiri writes, "those for whom everyone they once knew and loved is lost, those...
...sordid saga began in October 2001, when Ted Ammon, chairman of Jazz at Lincoln Center and a financier with a personal fortune estimated at $100 million, was found naked and bludgeoned to death in a bedroom in his ivy-covered mansion. Ammon, 52, was days away from signing divorce papers with Generosa, his wife of 15 years. The two were separated and battling over custody of their adopted Ukrainian twins, Alexa and Gregory, 11. At the time of the murder, Generosa was dating Pelosi, whom she met when he helped renovate her Manhattan town house. Pelosi had also installed...
Considering the saga's seminal literary importance, not to mention all the stuff that blows up, it's surprising that so few filmmakers have itched to put it on the screen. And when they do, it is usually The Odyssey they turn to. That picaresque travelogue through the wilder outposts of ancient Greece has inspired ordinary films (Kirk Douglas in a mid-'50s Ulysses), funny ones (the Coen brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou?) and one masterpiece (Theo Angelopoulos' Ulysses' Gaze, a mesmeric synopsis of a century of Greek history). But where's The Iliad? Hard to find, except...
...branch of the system covers for the other branch instead of fixing its mistakes,” David Okhotin said. “The saga goes...
...latest threat to humanity, wants nothing to do with such namby-pambiness and seeks to become the all-powerful vampiric avatar, La Magra. Blade, of course, is not big on plot; the movie’s true strength lies in its new-age rendition of Stoker’s saga with Marvel Comic elements. And the visuals of Blade pumping silver into vampire gut. Blade screens 2:30, 5:00, 7:30 and 10:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August...