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...special lighting design,” Stern says. “I chose to work with shadows because, like shadows, reenacted memories are never the thing itself, and they are only witnessed when captured, such as in the space of a theater or upon the pages of a book...
...first century BCE, Vergil was borrowing from the Greek epic to tell his own “Aeneid”; Leopold Bloom’s very different wandering in “Ulysses” set the bar almost impossibly high for modern adaptations. Mason’s book, then, faces its own Scylla and Charybdis—on the one hand, the menace of literary forerunners whose adaptations are now classics themselves; on the other, the possibility of merely echoing a tale already sung...
According to your book, you don't consider what we're doing here - a phone interview - to be an actual conversation. Why is that? What makes a conversation a conversation? What we do when we sit down and talk, I think, is very ancient and essential. And that's why I restrict my definition of conversation to in-person exchanges. Obviously, what we're doing right now is a conversation, but it's of a certain kind. You don't get to see what I look like or what my body language is or what my facial expressions...
...writing this book made you anxious around other people? Do people notice you looking at them in conversation? Fool that I am, it never occurred to me. I once knew a therapist, and I said to him, "When you go to a party or a dinner, you must think about people in terms of what their hang-ups and problems are, right?" And he said, "No, I just throw it out the window. Obviously if someone is flagrantly neurotic or OCD, I'm going to notice it as a professional. But generally I manage to keep my social life strictly...
...Vanessa James and Yannick Bonheur from France riled up the audience with a few daredevil maneuvers, including a sequence in which Bonheur dipped James' head near the ice before pulling her up just in the nick of time. Bonheur, however, made one small - but somewhat serious - mistake in my book. After the routine, the crowd gave the pair well-deserved applause. But just as the fans were quieting down, clearly ready to move on, Bonheur raised his hands in the air one more time. Dude, don't milk...