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Jeffery Eugenides' 'The Marriage Plot' Movie: Another Victorian Novel To Be Adapted For Film

18 May 2012

Hollywood seems to be getting serious in its on-again, off-again romance with the nineteenth-century novel. Things started heating up late last year when director Joe Wright (“Atonement�) fast-tracked his high-gloss production of “Anna Karenina.�

“Safe�: Ultra-violent ’70s action flicks are back!

26 Apr 2012

It's easy at first to draw comparisons between today's America and that of the 1970s -- economic struggle, a widening gulf between rich and poor, a persistent sense of national crisis -- but as those who actually lived through that storied decade can tell you, once you get to the details it all falls apart. The '70s was a decade of explosion: Exploding inflation, exploding crime rates, terrorist ...