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...world of iPads, iPhones, and Facebook,” Davies says, “face to face interaction and live performance are falling to the wayside.” Everything’s available on YouTube, but in “The Untitled Project,” the aim is to counteract this prevailing cultural current with an intimate moment that the performers and audience share...
Dana Knox, the Production Coordinator of the New College Theatre, believes her near-omnipresence in Harvard’s theatrical world is no accident. “Christine has shown such amazing dedication to the arts scene at Harvard that it is no wonder that she rose to prominence very early,” he says...
Chuck Palahniuk’s fourth book in as many years, “Tell-All,” focuses on the mid-twentieth century world of celebrity, as seen through the eyes of an aging star’s personal assistant. The book is one part Bette Davis in “All About Eve,” one part “American Psycho,” and several parts not up to Palahniuk’s usual storytelling ability...
...published, Palahniuk has employed his unique, repetitive writing style to illuminate a hidden world—that of fight clubs, sex addicts, televangelists, pornstars, and so on. One of the pleasures of reading many of his books is asking oneself if his revelations involving drugs, sex, bombs, and world history are actually true...
...book is narrated from the point of view of Hazie Coogan, the handler of aging actress and box office gold, Katherine Kenton. Though this pair is fictional, the world they occupy is full of real characters, although at the mercy of Palahniuk’s historical and anachronistic distortions. In the style of Patrick Bateman of “American Psycho,” Coogan’s narration is a constant barrage of brand names, celebrities, and historical references. The narrator self-consciously refers to this multiple times as “name-dropping Tourette’s syndrome...