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...he’s not afraid to veer from the literary, either, as anyone in First Parish Church learned on Monday. There to promote his new book—Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?—Bloom also waxed on a number of topics, including religion and “our current American political debacle...
...Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? exists in this vein of informed literary analysis for (quasi) popular consumption. Bloom wrote much of an original draft, but later discarded it and started anew. A life-threatening health crisis—when he was, as he said, “sliced up as so many people”—made him re-examine the work and the importance of literature to himself. After “being at the gates of death,” Bloom said, “I took one look at the book and simply wrote...
...Shall We Dance...
Director Peter Chelsom’s new movie, Shall We Dance?, has a dance card full of big-name actors but leaves its audience with little except bruised toes. A remake of Japanese director Masayuki Suo’s 1996 film of the same title—from which it imports most scenes and some dialogue—the movie ultimately seems as bungling on its feet as many of the characters it portrays. John Clark (Richard Gere) wants to ballroom dance. In Suo’s Japanese film this is understandably mortifying because, as a voiceover tells...
...Seth’s popped collars and Marissa’s alcohol problem. Here on the frigid East Coast, especially at Harvard, we spend enough of our time agonizing over weighty issues and being “smart.” Let’s take a break, shall we, and revel in the fun and sun that—though fictitious, airbrushed and far too dramatic—still entertains in the way television should. That is, without forcing insecure people to undergo numerous plastic surgeries. Let’s get back to where television really belongs?...