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...auction - a step toward rebuilding his family's prosperity. She believes the house is still rightfully hers and battles back - with deadly consequences. Though Kingsley and Shohreh Aghdashloo, who plays his wife, Nadi, have both won acclaim and Oscar nods for their performances, some critics panned the film's tragic Shakespearean ending. ("Smacks of overreach," complained the Chicago Tribune.) But Kingsley puts the film in league with ancient dramatic traditions that used less plausible, more hyperbolic plotlines to pound home a point. "The Greeks embraced tragic drama," he says. "We are a society dedicated to the outlawing of tragedy...
When Hwang Woo Suk, one of South Korea's leading cloning experts, hit a frustrating patch in his research last year, a neurosurgeon colleague suggested he spend time with some patients who might benefit from stem-cell research. Hwang met a young couple with a tragic tale. The day after their wedding, the newlyweds went hiking. The husband slipped on a mountain trail and injured his spine. In the five years since the accident, the man hadn't been able to walk or go to the bathroom without his wife's help...
From the earliest days of moving pictures, directors have been obsessed with bringing William Shakespeare's Macbeth to the screen. Orson Welles played the tragic king among Stonehenge-like ruins. Akira Kurosawa's murderous medieval lord went down in the most furious fusillade of arrows ever filmed. Roman Polanski, funded by Playboy Productions, filmed Lady Macbeth sleepwalking in the nude...
Delbanco’s style focuses on humor and Rosalie is wryly aware of all the events in her life, both tragic and comic. The novel focuses on everyday issues—employment, love, friendships, urban life—but Delbanco makes a point of creating a strong voices among her characters to keep the readers interest...
...With its seamy mix of political power, billions of baht in booty, and high-society scandal, the Hangthong case is just the latest installment of a Tumwattana family saga that is Shakespearean in its tragic body count. Starting in the 1950s as owners of a slaughterhouse, the clan's patriarch, Arkom, and his wife, Suwapee, built a Bangkok-based real estate empire worth an estimated $400 million. But wealth didn't bring security to the family, which numbered 10 children. In 1966, Arkom was shot dead in what was believed to be a business dispute. The case remains unsolved. Thirteen...