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...looks Japanese, but speaks with the accent of public-school England. Three of his six novels are set in the Far East, the other three explore the quintessence of Englishness. After the stately, hugely successful The Remains of the Day, which spawned the 1993 movie, Ishiguro went wild; his next two novels - The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans - subjected their characters to chaos, violence and injustice. His latest, Never Let Me Go (Faber and Faber; 263 pages), is crueler still. And so who is this author: English intellectual or Japanese sensei? "I felt half English and half Japanese...
...utmost compliance, a commitment to be nothing other than what the other desired. In that very first episode, the show seemed to make the same offer to its viewers: we will be what you want us to be. If you want titties, we’ll give you wild cocaine-fueled bikini booby-bounce bashes. If you want violence, we’ll welcome you to The OC bitch—with a beachside brawl and a demonstration that this is how it’s done in Orange County. If you want Marxist class warfare, we?...
...doesn't have a childlike aura," says Campbell Scott, who directed the then 13-year-old Valentina de Angelis in Off the Map, opening next week. "They have to be professional enough to not want to go home after three hours but unprofessional enough so they can be completely wild--so they...
...very receptive to taking audience suggestions. Blending techniques from television shows like “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” and “Saturday Night Live,” each night’s 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. shows filled the theater with wild and consistently funny routines...
Something supremely poetic runs through this album, and the straightforward lyrics call forth an honesty that makes true love feel like the most familiar thing in the world. A valuable little disc, then, for when doubt runs wild and assurance is needed...