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Giamatti is not so self-abnegating that he denies his skills--"I've been pretty good in some stuff," he says in a satire of gruffness--but ever since his days at Yale (where his father Bart was president before becoming commissioner of baseball; he died in 1989), he has made team play a religion. "He was hands down the best actor at Yale," says Shawn Levy, who directed Giamatti in a school production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and painted him blue in the 2002 Frankie Muniz vehicle Big Fat Liar. "He could have dominated every play...
...manufactured on the island. There is a kind of monkey on the island which is very small and has a face just like a man's. They take these and pluck out all the hairs except on the beard and chest and then they dry them and stuff them and daub them with saffron until they look like...
...Long Way Down gets into some very heavy stuff indeed. It's about four strangers on New Year's Eve who meet on the roof of an apartment building where they have all come to kill themselves. It's a credit to Hornby's ambition and idiosyncratic world view that this idea struck him as suited to his gifts. "Immediately I could see that there would be an opportunity for comedy," he says by phone from London...
...trouble by sheer dint of will and excessive amounts of heart, and these women just happen to be lawyers. I write about murder and law because they encompass the great themes of fiction--love and hate, justice and injustice, good and evil. If you can write about such dramatic stuff, why would you write about anything else...
Nelson would have a tough time getting this stuff published in a major journal like Science or Nature. But he doesn't have to, thanks to an organization called the Society for Scientific Exploration, or S.S.E., which held its annual meeting outside Gainesville, Fla., last week. The location--a Best Western overlooking Interstate 75--wasn't quite so lavish as the conference centers where neurologists or physicists routinely meet. Yet that didn't seem to matter for the hundred or so researchers who came to hear learned talks on, among other things, consciousness physics, astrology and parapsychology. Here...