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...influences on Pixar's new film Up, from Dumbo to The Wizard of Oz, Richard Corliss overlooks another, earlier source of inspiration [May 18]. This is animation pioneer Winsor McCay's 1921 short film, in his Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend series, called The Flying House, in which the protagonist dreams that her husband adds wings and a propeller to their home and flies away into the universe to escape foreclosure. M. Thomas Inge, ASHLAND...
...This is not my story. It’s the life of a boy named Jeffrey, the protagonist in one of the greatest stories ever told. An orphan with nothing, he’s best known as Maniac Magee, the title character from Jerry Spinelli’s timeless Scholastic classic...
...core of each character. “The best actors have a shorthand for expressing the emotional life of a character that even the real character can’t quite express as comfortably,” he says. Haney cast up-and-comer Nicole Beharie as female protagonist Dee Roberts. Joining Beharie in the film are veteran actors like Alfre Woodard, Tim Blake Nelson, and Charles Dutton.The 2000 U.S. presidential election constitutes both the political and visual subtexts of the storyline, with frequent shots of the campaigns of George W. Bush and Al Gore ’69 spliced...
...narrative. Since McCafferty’s debut “Sloppy Firsts,” the Jessica Darling Series has never been firmly in one genre or directly targeted at a clear audience. The first few books straddled the boundary between young adult and mainstream fiction, and as the protagonist and authorial risks have matured, McCafferty has positioned herself between “chick-lit” and more literary-minded fiction. On appearances and plot summary alone, “Perfect Fifths” seems to fall squarely within the realm of the former, but there is a psychological...
...year-old author launched with “Zero” while still an undergraduate at Bennington College, and then gave him another almost as big when “Attraction” came out two years later. They balked at the finished novel, though, which sends protagonist Patrick Bateman—a 1984 graduate of Harvard College and a 1986 grad of the Business School—on a slasher rampage up and down yuppie Manhattan.Bateman is a true psychotic for sure, but he’s a guy-next-door, red-blooded-American psychotic. His mania is success...