BOOKS NEW YORK (AP) – For decades, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan and others from “The Great Gatsby” have been as real to millions of readers as those in their own lives, appearances and achievements in the American pursuit of wealth and status. Beginning next January, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel will become a reality for … Read more
More than any other writer, it can be said that F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the rollicking, riotous years known as the Roaring Twenties, from its wild parties, dancing and unrestrained drinking and her prosperity after the war and her new freedoms for women. Above all, Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The great gatsby He is hailed as … Read more
Remember in Chapter 5 of The great gatsby, during the big reunion when Daisy and Jay talk briefly about their experiences during the flu? No? How about that change in Chapter 3, when Nick Carraway tells Jordan Baker that he doesn’t like big parties, after a year of socializing? Well, you can’t remember those moments … Read more
BBC drama Marriage explores the highs and lows of a 30-year marriage, and boasts a phenomenal cast led by Sean Bean and Nicola Walker. Here’s how you can see all eyes on the BBC One drama, written by Stefan Golaszewski… Sean Bean directs actor Ian (Credit: BBC) Read more: Sean Bean is back on TV … Read more
Hollywood has its Olsen brothers, the Hemsworth brothers, the Skarsgård family, the Smith family, and more cinematic families with instantly recognizable families. In some cases, these family ties have led to collaborations in TV and movies. Consider whether your partner is a parent, sibling, or child. For some stars, that thought is true. RELATED: 7 … Read more
Return of the Knife: Four Films by Claude Chabrol (1997-2003, France, Arrow Video, 4 Blu-ray, NR, 422 min.). This is the second Chabrol released by Arrow, after the fifth film “Lies and Deceit,” and the four films here have similar elements, including the murderous plot, even after his Professionally, Chabrol based his films on the … Read more
All over the country, students are wiped out. Boomers blame social media, and they may be right. But there is a kind of indoctrination that twists my tools – I mean the culture of the American high school English class. These days, there is a lot of evaluation of what we teach children, beyond history … Read more
Well Go USA Entertainment has transferred North American distribution rights to Xiaogang Feng’s “I Am Not Madame Bovary,” a film directed by international superstar Fan Bingbing. Well Go won the film after its world premiere on Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film hits US theaters on October 7. It will happen. Read … Read more
‘Why We Did It: A Journey from Republic Road to Hell’By Tim Millerc.2022, Harper$26.99/259 pages ‘Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story’By Lis Smithc.2022, Harper$22.39/304 pages The lilies of the field, the Bible tells us, “do not work, and do not spin.” If only they had met Tim Miller and Lis Smith! Miller and Smith, … Read more
In the spring of 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his editor Max Perkins to tell him that his new novel would have a “Catholic element” in it. When he began working on the novel, Fitzgerald based his opening scene on a Midwestern boy preaching and receiving the Eucharist. Later, Fitzgerald abandoned this opening, and … Read more
