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Paul Thomas Anderson is out to prove the obvious: that we live in a chance universe, that coincidence and mishap play a larger role in our destinies than we like to think. In Magnolia he intertwines four disparate (but equally glum) stories of people living in California's San Fernando...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Magnolia | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

The result is a hard-striving, convoluted movie, which never quite becomes the smoothly reciprocating engine Anderson (who did Boogie Nights) would like it to be. Indeed, only one of his tales is fully persuasive. That's the one about the Partridge family, which is not to be confused with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Magnolia | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

JOSEPH HELLER used to say he'd rather have a big meal than a good one. His friends were used to him grabbing the waiter to demand two large spoons and digging in first. One evening, when a huge bowl of soup was placed on the table, Joe announced, "Gentlemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: JOSEPH HELLER | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

For a while, his East Hampton doormat read GO AWAY, and his roar and mane were leonine. But underneath that mask of grumpiness was one of the softest and kindest men I've ever met. He was constantly interweaving the lives of the people he knew, making sure they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: JOSEPH HELLER | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

One day Mario Puzo joined us for lunch and mentioned how he used to play three wishes as a kid but had now reduced them to one: "To die in my sleep." These two good friends did exactly that. It makes the grieving a little bit easier when people get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: JOSEPH HELLER | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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