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(Eva-Marie Saint) – the mistress of the leader of the foreign spies. These days, of course, it is tame, but in that era, the representation of a woman going all out to seduce a man was quite something. And the repartee between the two, full ofdouble entendreis another of the film...
Macbeth is a story of a man, whose visions of power grew by the ambitions of murder and treason. Until his thirst for power caused him to lose that very source of his ambition to the blade of Macduff's sword. It is the ironic and symbolic elements of this play that have caused so ...
Last month, JB wondered if the Charlie Parker mysteries written by John Connolly would be different if they were set in another part of the country, and when the shop was open, people would ask me why John, who is most decidedly Irish, set his books there, and not in say, Ireland, ...
Alan Bown Set “Emergency 999” [This Is Hip!!! Vol. 2] Christians “Forgive Me, That Cruelty Was Inescusable ” [S/Z] The Seeds “Out of the Question – Version 1 – Take 1” [The Seeds (Deluxe Reissue)] Mary Ocher “I Am The Occupation” [Sympathize] White Manna “We Pretend...
What Role Does Guilt Play In Macbeth TheRoleof Guilt in Macbeth In the story Macbeth fearswhatwill happen to him in the life to come‚ with thoughts of an undetermined destiny which worry him while his evil deeds may come back to him. Mixed emotions run through Macbeth’s mind as...
The “Oversights” double issue was super fun too. I was in theWashington Postover the summer,ranting about Indiana Jones.I had somebookchapterscome out, too, if you’re into that sort of thing. Uneven Futureshas had some great reviews, includingthis one from LARB,this one fromScience Fic...
aMacbeth, all black performers but the white man doing an emasculated mocked hero was fueled I thought by a hatred of the original, and done in anger and resentment to made it intensely pro-ambition in order to vindicate a preening unashamedly self-glorifying Lady Macbeth (Shakespear’s play...
especially when something is set in the past. I wrote a mystery-thriller set in Los Angeles during World War II and looking at maps of that era was fascinating. Many of the freeways that we know today didn’t exist and that made a difference in how my character got around and where th...