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There was, of course, one final part of the Apollo 13 saga--the anxiety felt by the families of the astronauts...
That's life according to the movies and the rest of a pop culture devoted to offering us emotionally reassuring clichas on a weekly basis. (A good current example is My Family, another immigrant saga, in which any seasoned moviegoer can foretell the fate of every character the minute he or she appears, as well as the shamelessly sentimental ending.) But life according to life is usually not so predictable. So, when you run into something like The Perez Family, a movie that is full of lifelike bestartlements but still comes out kind of nice in the end, you have...
...turbulent, cross-grained story that pulls at the imagination, and that pull leads back to the earlier novels. And to an odd perception: though this is a multigenerational chronicle that follows the main and minor figures of two Southern clans from 1904 to the present, the entire saga is really about only one person, the author. The trilogy is, not far under its surface of entrances and exits, a single long soliloquy--Price's own dark, spiraling meditation, mostly baffled and gloomy, often agonized, on human isolation...
...exciting year can be summarized by three key events: the neverending O.J. Simpson saga, President Neil L. Rudenstine's overwhelming fatigue (and consequential absence from the college) and the complex yet so popular Gina Grant story. All these were unforgettable experiences in which much of the Harvard community has taken part and which have made this school year particularly interesting...
While art often imitates life, it's unlikely a movie could ever be made of the Brando family saga, because it's too complex and twisted for any screenwriter to handle. Where to start? In Brando's recent autobiography, Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me, he described his mother as "an off-the-shelf drunk" and his father as physically abusive. Where to end? The two-time Oscar winner (On the Waterfront, The Godfather) partly dedicated the book to "my children, who brought me up," yet he barely mentions his 11 (at least) offspring by his three wives and numerous...