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...JUNGLE By Upton Sinclair, adapted by Peter Kuper The praised adaptation of Sinclair's novel will arrive in paperback. See TIME.comix review of the hardcover
Skip it, and go instead for Kuper's far more interesting adaptation of Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel "The Jungle" (NBM; 48 pages; $16). When first published, its exposure of the Chicago meatpacking industry's outrageous conditions created a scandal that resulted in the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. But far more immortal than mere reportage, "The Jungle" retains its power to shock thanks to the artistry of the novel's characterization and cracking plot. It stars Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian bear of a man who, at the novel's beginning, has just arrived in America...
...Jurgis stands in the shadow of death in Peter Kuper's adapatation of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle...
With an extended stage taking up nearly as much space as the audience, director Robyn Nevin gives the lithe film star room to prowl. A new adaptation by Blanchett's husband, Andrew Upton, which splices up Ibsen's acerbic dialogue as if in a Robert Altman movie, keeps things brisk and tense. And Blanchett plays Hedda - whose dalliance with old flame Lovborg (Aden Young) brings her under scrutiny by family friend Judge Brack (Hugo Weaving) - as neither victim nor villain, but rather as a kind of classy control freak. This most un-neurotic of actresses makes Hedda's animal instinct...
Charges against Upton, who had been arrested randomly from the mass of musicians, were eventually dropped. Strauss was given a short probation and ordered to pay minimal fines for damage to several New Haven police cars, which he says was caused by rowdy Elis incited by the performance...