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...late '60s, Lewis's film popularity waned. In his 40s, he had not found a maturer version of the crazy kid audiences had once loved. The low point came in 1972, when he starred in and directed The Day the Clown Cried, a sort of Bozo at Auschwitz drama that was never released and remains a very tantalizing lost film. Comedian Harry Shearer - whose report on the 1976 Telethon is one of the finest pieces written on Lewis, and who may have seen the movie - described it as "the Holocaust on black velvet." In what must be another painful twist...
...December, part of Yates' disturbing world found its way to the big screen, with the release of a film version of his first novel, Revolutionary Road, pairing Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in their first cinematic get-together since Titanic. The novel chronicles the painful disintegration of the marriage of Frank and April Wheeler, a seemingly model couple in vapid 1950s suburbia. The film, which faithfully captures that pain, promptly sank at the box office - grossing just $21 million so far - despite the fact that Winslet won a Golden Globe as Best Actress for her tortured role. (See pictures...
...edition, which Lampoon President Matthew K. Grzecki ’10 read aloud to the nearly-filled room. “This is an unbelievably impressive showing,” said Grzecki before delving into selections from the book. This reissue is based on an original version owned by Gus Sousa, a rare book collector and resident of Salem, Mass. The ’Poonsters admitted in the foreward that the nearly century-old work might not appeal to readers with more modern tastes, saying that if the work was not their “‘best?...
...China has shown the world in the last 30 years that development can be defined in many ways. But the combination of censorship, autocratic rule, and an oligarchic elite resented by lower classes does not bode well, particularly in times of economic downturn. If media censorship is the Chinese version of the French Bastille, perhaps the next fire at CCTV headquarters will be more than an unfortunate accident...
...Until Goody's cancer diagnosis - revealed to her as she filmed the Indian version of Big Brother, called Bigg Boss, alongside her erstwhile nemesis Shetty - a small number of Britons somehow avoided the Goody circus. They failed to buy either of her memoirs, Jade: My Autobiography and Jade: Catch a Falling Star; they never dabbed her fragrance, Shh ... Jade Goody, behind their ears; they didn't perform physical jerks to any of her five fitness DVDs or try recipes from her cookbook; they even missed her many broadcast and print appearances. Yet enough of their compatriots did these things...