Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freshmen and all psyched to test our newfound status as "The Harvard Man." Our first stop in Northampton: the pharmacy. The second question (you can guess the first; it was at the pharmacy): how do we get to Smith? Alas, my first encounter with a Smithie tells the sorry tale...
Take the word of another eternal youth, Michael Jackson. For years the pop megastar was rumored to have been chosen by Spielberg to play Peter Pan in a new adaptation of the James M. Barrie tale. It was not to be, and at the moment Jackson is working with Lucas on a project. But the reclusive young thriller declares it "my honor" to speak about Spielberg. "I must have seen E.T. around 40 times, and Jaws a good hundred or so," Jackson says. "You feel loved in his films. Steven never sleeps, never rests at ease. Last year, during...
...that suggests Rembrandt on Halloween. More important, it finds a new twist for the Spielberg credo: the miraculous power of the artistic imagination. This story of a World War II gunnery ace + who, in the author's provocative words, "literally paints himself out of a corner," is a fairy tale for the technocratic 20th century. It should be the first movie that Mom and Dad show to Max Samuel Spielberg...
Hidden in his bag was precious cargo: the manuscript of his second novel, Heroes Are Grazing in My Garden, which was published in English last year (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $16.95). It is not an angry indictment of Cuba today but something more powerful: a sad but engrossing tale of the spiritual squalor that has settled over the island. Padilla's memoirs, Self-Portrait of Other -- the other being the man he left behind in Havana -- is scheduled to be published next year...
...Angeles suburb of Hollywood, the industry discovered the last element it needed to achieve dominance among the popular arts: movie stars. Two of them, by turning stereotypes of Everyman and Pretty Girl into archetypes, would become the most recognizable people in the world, and among the wealthiest. The fairy tale needs one more twist: both Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford were immigrants...