Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long and leisurely way, Maurice (pronounced "Morris") tells the tale of Maurice Hall (James Wilby), a young Englishman who grapples with the discovery that he is, in his own words, "the Oscar Wilde sort." In early 20th century England, of course, this "sort" of behavior was serious stuff: homosexuality was illegal, punishable by imprisonment, flogging and a ruined reputation...
...past 15 years. Atlas, who worked for The Advocate and The Crimson while at Harvard, set his novel--which has won kudos from the literary world--in Harvard of the late 1960s. Atlas's book details the frustration and confusion of youth in the 1960s. The semiautobiographical tale is told through the eyes of a budding author, whose life is shadowed by his Jewish-Chicago past...
ONCE UPON a time, there was a cinematic fairy tale. A fairy tale of true love conquering all. A tale in which the good survive and the bad are conquered and in which characters ride off into the sunset. Such is the saga of The Princess Bride, Rob Reiner's entry into the fantasy genre. It is less than fantastic...
...TALE opens, a royal bride-to-be, drawn from and adored by the commoners, prepares to wed a prince she does not love. Sound familiar? It is a subplot of The King and I. Like the woman in the famous musical, Princess Buttercup (played by Robin Wright) yearns for another, a farmboy whom she thinks is dead...
...accordance with the traditional laws of fairy-tale telling, The Princess Bride has a mawkishly happy ending, reinforcing the mistaken notion that a happy ending is a cliche. Even Reiner's framing device is trite: he has a grandfather, played by Peter "Columbo" Falk, read "the Princess Bride" fable to his ailing grandson...