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The most important thing to realize about Hyde is that he is one of the last of a generation of Congress members who relied on manners to get things done. These days the typical Republican lawmaker is young, brash and in a hurry. Hyde is none of those things. In...
A bag of bones is what Thomas Hardy supposedly deemed even "the most brilliantly drawn character in a novel." Mike Noonan has been unable to find his bag since his wife's death left him with a nasty case of writer's block. His nights are haunted by her ghost...
In films like Amistad, slavery is used as a visual bulldozer, meant to overwhelm viewers through its shocking brutality and painful inhumanity. In Beloved, the highly-anticipated adaptation of Toni Morrison's lauded Pulitzer Prize winning novel, slavery is explored in a much subtler, almost metaphorical fashion. It is an...
Beloved will wreak much mischief as she befriends the three living residents of this haunted house, sparking jealousy, infidelity and finally scandal among the good ladies of the emerging black middle class. In Sethe, who believes her to be her dead child revived, Beloved cues the brutal hierarchy of a...
With just four major characters, a family in the vise of the past, a haunted house and nearly three hours of running time, the Beloved film suggests a sultry cousin of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. Demme, in working with screenwriter Adam Brooks on the...