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...Sunshine, Michel Gondry keeps the story rooted in the essential horror of finding your best memories being slowly deleted, always making the audience care for Joel as a man, rather than blowing away characterization for the sake of wonderment at the increasingly inventive set pieces. But, boy, are those set pieces cool. The best example can be found in a scene where Joel and Clementine run across Grand Central Station as the people they pass are slowly erased. It’s the film world’s first existential action scene...
...Deirdre and John is very angry to learn that she failed her test. Lehiff offers him the chance to get even: help him rob Sam while holding Deirdre hostage. They enlist a third member for their gang, Mick, who has just been fired from bus-driving after a young boy threw a rock through his window, causing him to crash...
Margo says he was initially attracted to the play for its “little boy against the world story.” He adds that he also admired, “the clarity of the script. It’s pretty direct; not much dicking around with subtext...
...seems to be in the nature of genius to zero in on its purpose. In the 1790s a young French boy named Jean-Francois Champollion, the son of a bookseller, became obsessed with ancient languages--not only Latin and Greek but also Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Chaldean. According to The Linguist and the Emperor (Ballantine; 271 pages), by Daniel Meyerson, Champollion was a dreamy, solitary kid who mouthed off in class, but as a schoolboy, he assembled a 2,000-page dictionary of Coptic, an ancient Egyptian language. Luckily for him, French soldiers in Egypt soon discovered the Rosetta stone...
...David Lynch--perfect Michigan suburb in the mid-1990s. A loner and a compulsive tinkerer, Hahn somehow got it into his head in high school to build a nuclear reactor in his mom's potting shed, and damn if he didn't come close. In The Radioactive Boy Scout (Random House; 209 pages), Ken Silverstein describes how Hahn extracted radioactive elements from household objects--americium from smoke detectors, thorium from Coleman lanterns, deadly radium from the glow-in-the-dark paint used on the hands of vintage clocks. For sheer improvisational ingenuity, Hahn makes MacGyver look like Jessica Simpson. When...