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...Terribly Happy” is based on a book by Erling Jepsen, a childhood friend of Genz. “He told me about his new idea for ‘Terribly Happy,’ and I immediately got captured. I thought it was a wonderful idea. He agreed on sending me every chapter he wrote, and I would comment on it while he was writing the book. Meanwhile, I was trying to figure out a treatment for the film as he developed the story...
...protagonist absconds to England - so far, so autobiographical - but, as in all good novels of identity and redemption, he is hotly pursued by his past, or what Mukherjee calls "the gratuitous tyranny of memory." In this case, it's more than a literary device. Flashbacks of Ritwik's dreadful childhood - hallucinations of his late abusive mother terrify him in his college room - animate the plot, driving Ritwik to seek a "snack of oblivion" in anonymous gay sex in public toilets. They also cause him to work through, on paper, his attitudes to his motherland, for interleaved with Ritwik's story...
...While A Life Apart revolves around the past, the past is not the same as nostalgia. There is little romance or Proustian yearning here (although a childhood storybook fills Ritwik with "a strange longing"). But if Mukherjee is scathing about Ritwik's history in a city "that had leaped out of the pages of Dante and transposed east," he also refuses to extol Oxford as the site of Ritwik's apparent freedom. Ritwik ignores the university town's prettiness, fixating instead on the "s___-brown door" of the toilet cubicle he favors for his risky liaisons. And London, while offering...
...Olympic downhill? -Franois Xavier Warlomont, Libramont, Belgium It was incredible. I didn't know that an American woman had never won a downhill. When I found that out after winning the race, it was really something special. I was just trying to ski well and accomplish a childhood dream. (See pictures of Lindsey Vonn...
...Leigh G. Hafrey ’73 have been Mather House Masters for 18 years, so their son Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey ’13 remembers no other way of life. In fact, he says his first memory is frolicking in the Mather House basement. Most of his childhood memories revolve around Mather House, from playing four square with students in the Mather courtyard to playing Linus in the Mather production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown...