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...author and artist in her own right, Hughes, 46, is the daughter of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Her parents' tumultuous marriage, her father's infidelity, her mother's suicide when Frieda Hughes was three, and her parents' larger-than-life work (including her mother's semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar) have been the subject of dozens of books and movies. Now Hughes has broken her near silence about her own life and family drama, in her moving new book of poetry, 45, a must-read for any Plath devotee. The collection of poems (one for each year...
About a third of the way into “Bright Lights, Big City,” a musical based on the 1984 era-defining novel by Jay McInerney, I had to face a hard truth. This play was not going to make me cool...
Today, the highly anticipated film “300,” a Frank Miller graphic novel adapted into a “Sin City”-styled cinematic extravaganza, opens in theaters across the world. For fans who stood shivering in lines last night to catch a midnight showing, “300” is a worthy piece of modern art, blending Greek history and shed Persian blood. Some would argue it is little more than another desperate Hollywood attempt to prostitute for the mass media any meaning history has. But regardless of where you personally stand...
...Institute has received. The other two came from Eli and Edythe L. Broad, who founded the center with their first gift in 2003. The Stanley Institute is a philanthropy that supports research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Scolnick said he hoped the funding will enable his center to find novel treatments for these disorders by involving researchers from a wide range of medical disciplines. “We’re really going after bipolar disorder and schizophrenia that in most part strike young people at the peak of their lives when they’re just getting...
...start of Jane Smiley’s latest novel, a Hollywood director tells his girlfriend he wants to make a movie in the bedroom, about the bedroom. He would call it “My Lovemaking with Elena” (like “My Dinner with André”). It would be dominated by pillow talk about the Iraq war, and it would be art.Elena tells Max, “I don’t think that people would see it like that. Don’t you think the penetration would be the news, and that...