Word: hauntedness
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DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES. Three children in a Liverpool family literally sing their way through two decades of air raids, poverty and a father's sere brutality. Prepare to be thrilled, perplexed, horrified, haunted.
The richest literary material available to Hwang may be his own family. His mother's forebears moved from China to the Philippines in the 19th century and founded a trading company that at one point owned the national franchises for Coca-Cola and General Motors. "Basically," he says, "they were...
Dalton also has tried to bring some psychological drama back to the role. His Bond, balancing on the edge of sanity, is still haunted by the death of his wife. And the attack on Felix pushes him almost over the edge. He drops his Secret Service duties and embarks on...
"I've learned more about movie craft from making the Indiana Jones films than I did from E.T. or Jaws," says Spielberg, who won't take on Indy a fourth time. "And now I feel as if I've graduated from the college of Cliff- Hanger U. I ought to...
Among the few modern concert performers whom even the tone-deaf have heard of, none is more intriguing than the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould -- not only because of his electrifying reinventions of Bach's Goldberg Variations, among other pieces, but also because of the strikingly eccentric artistic creation that was...