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Friday, Oct. 14. “Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness.” Journalist Joshua Wolf Shenk probes the psyche of the Great Emancipator. 3 p.m. Harvard Book Store...
Thousands stayed behind in the city or relied on strained rescue and relief efforts, many of them condemned by their poverty to ride out the storm and its aftermath or simply wary of a lifetime of boy-who-cried-wolf predictions. New Orleans' poverty and crime levels dwarf those of the rest of the nation, with a staggering percentage of black males seeing the inside of prisons during their lifetimes...
...trickery, of course--trapdoors and specters on a stick--but it's a good show. Then they come to a village where the mysteries can't be so easily explained away. Little girls vanish in the forest; trees tiptoe like goblins; a horse devours a child; a wolf can fly. In their newfound terror, the brothers learn a lesson about art and life: there are special effects--and then there is magic...
...Grimm, it was Gilliam who nearly cracked up, but the strain doesn't show onscreen. The film is a colorful ragbag of fairy-tale tropes, with crones peddling apples, a girl in a red riding hood running into a wolf and a vain queen at her magic mirror. Gilliam, who loathes the "juvenile fantasy" of movie heroism, makes the brothers pleasant but oafish; Headey, in a gorgeous, starmaking turn, is the real hero as the fearless witch Angelika. The movie's sense of humor is high-low in the Python style. It alternates the drollery of Jonathan Pryce's French...
...money off their work elsewhere or share it with friends via video logs or at film festivals. And although Current promised to hire hundreds of digital correspondents, contributors must now sign on as free-lancers, who get neither salary nor benefits. In frustration with Current's tight controls, Josh Wolf, 23, a filmmaker and volunteer organizer for Current's San Francisco "meet-up group," at which digital artists view and critique one another's videos, launched his own alternative to Current. Called the Rise Up Network, the collective of video makers is creating a website on which anyone can feature...