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...Dreyfus Affair...
...figure...A Memphis jury rules that there was a widespread conspiracy to murder Martin Luther King Jr., and the nation responds with a resounding ho-hum. Despite America's love affair with conspiracy theories, the trial was notable in its media absence. Court TV televised the opening days, then skipped town, and civil rights leaders, including Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson (who was at the assassination), have been quiet on the ruling. Even conspiracy-lover Oliver Stone allowed his option on the film rights to the murder expire. Of course, a trial that was based on defendant Loyd Jowers...
Harvard has not defeated RPI in a regular season affair since 1996-97, but it did defeat the Engineers 2-1 in Game One of the ECAC Quarterfinals last year...
...movie is rife with unusually frank love scenes; Jordan says it's no coincidence that his film, produced independently in the U.K., was made wholly outside the Hollywood studio system: "The End of the Affair is one of the most frankly erotic books ever written. I wanted to make my film's [sex scenes] as truly as the book does. When I see sex scenes between Hollywood actors, they're always terribly violent. They're always shoving each other's head against the wall, or ripping up a table full of crockery and throwing the girl down...
...Jordan not only directed The End of the Affair, but wrote the adaptation of the Greene novel himself. "[The novel] has a combination of eroticism and spirituality I thought was fascinating" The themes that he explored through this love affair--he pushed the idea of commitment, and the idea of possession, and the idea of affection to such an extreme that you can touch on other areas that love stories don't often touch on. [Greene is] a great novelist of character, and he's kind of pitiless-he observes them at their worst and their best...