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Fifty-five years after C.S. Lewis published the “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media have spent more than $250 million bringing the first of his seven hallowed Narnia novels to the big screen.The live-action adaptation of...
...inward life. Jacobs seeks to understand the mind behind the stories rather than the biographical minutiae of Lewis’ outward life, relying often on letters and close readings of Lewis’ texts. He names “[his] belief that Lewis’ mind was above all characterized by a willingness to be enchanted” as the cornerstone of his analysis. Yet Jacobs is an apologist as well as an investigator—his unflagging admiration for Lewis shines through even his critiques. While writing the book, Jacobs had access to what he terms...
Paine Hall. 8 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $6 student/senior, $10 general. Imagine what it would have been like if, as a child, Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and The Memorial Church’s Pusey Minister, had read to...
Playwright Paula Vogel is inspired by hallucinations. During her lounge-style interview with approximately 20 Harvard students in the Barker Center last Thursday, the Pulitzer-prize winning playwright and head of Brown University’s Graduate Playwriting Workshop described her own writing process, which usually includes seeing an image...
(Warner Brothers)4/5 StarsWhen listening to the new “Rent” soundtrack, the first thing diehard fans will try to ascertain is whether the new recording is unique enough to merit an addition to their collection, right next to the 1996 recording by the original Broadway cast...