Word: fiction
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...albatros is another new publication at Harvard. First published last year, it is a forum for the French-speaking community at Harvard. The magazine hopes to demonstrate the diversity of Harvard's French students and the possibilities of French poetry, fiction and essays. L'albatros also accepts photography and art. Submit at the Woodberry Poetry Room, the Romance Languages Department or email either block@fas or Kimberly Pope at pope@fas. Submissions accepted from students of all schools of the University...
...Turning Fact into Fiction...
...line between fact and fiction is always shaky, how well-defined is it in The Insider? Although Mann has admitted to taking dramatic license with some of the characters and events, the film nevertheless presents itself as a hard-hitting, true-to-life account of exactly what went on behind the scenes at "60 Minutes." And Mann's version of the "truth," however manipulated it might be, is raising pulses and tempers at "60 Minutes...
...Mann has certain responsibilities as a filmmaker, but he also has the right to tell a story; it is his decision on how to balance the obligations of fact and fiction, and hopefully he will respect the powers of each. "Wallace and Hewitt have criticized the film because it's Michael Mann's view of my perspective, or Wigand's perspective," Bergman says. Luckily, Mann, even with the dramatic license he takes, is still committed to telling the true story; but what if the next filmmaker who comes along decides to sacrifice fact for fiction's sake...
...Insider raises pressing questions about the boundaries between reality and fiction, and while there may not be rules about how to represent the truth, perhaps there should be responsibilities. In light of this, perhaps The Insider is being misrepresented as a "true" account; it might be more befitting of Mann to market his film as a kind of "historical fiction" than as the real thing...