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...level, though, we see Eco the academic struggling to understand his unexpected success. Popular success that is, Far as a member of the academic community. Eco must have been taught that the popular appeal of a person's work is irrelevant to its ultimate importance. That's how an Egyptologist can justify his life's effort against that of a scriptwriter for Fridays. In Postscript, Eco tries to tell his colleagues that he hasn't pandered to the public, by offering explanations of why The Name of the Rose was such a hit with unsophisticated readers." Says Professor...
...parody of every gaslight romance from Jane Eyre to Rebecca, with glancing references to Shakespeare and Poe, to Louis Feuillade's silent-movie serials and Universal horror shows of the'30s-not to forget a side trip to the pyramids, where Lord Edgar reveals himself as an Egyptologist with a mummy fixation...
...form and serendipitous. He consulted no scholars: "I just never wanted to cross that bridge and go over to the museum and put myself in the hands of a curator." His liberties include the ancient Egyptians' belief in physical reincarnation and mental telepathy (they held neither tenet). One Egyptologist gives Mailer mixed marks on his homework, particularly criticizing "his cannibalized or bastardized forms of good ancient Egyptian names." Two of Mailer's main characters are named Menenhetet I and II; according to the specialist, the names should have been Mentuhotep or Amenemhat...
...Polish archaeologist who headed an international team that dismantled, and then reconstructed on higher ground the magnificent Egyptian temples at Abu Simbel in order to save them from flooding caused by the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s; of unannounced causes; in Warsaw. A leading Egyptologist for 50 years, Michalowski worked on the reconstruction of the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir-el-Bahari in 1961; he also unearthed the tomb of Thutmosis III in the Valley of the Kings...
...Actress Lesley-Anne Down, "It was like being in a sweatshop." Daily temperatures of 100° to 120° F, says Down, made Sphinx "my most physically exhausting movie." Things did not improve when the cast moved to breezy Budapest. There, in a cavernous studio, Down portrayed an Egyptologist who finds the lost tomb of Seti I. To evoke the proper sepulchral ambience, 130 bats were set loose on the set. "It was horrible. They rained down on me," she shudders. "Even now, I go funny at the knees just thinking about those ghastly creatures...