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Last updated 4/3/2005
1. The Subject Tonight is Love : Sixty Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz
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To Persians, the fourteenth-century
poems of Hafiz are not classical literature from a remote past, but cherished
love, wisdom, and humor from a dear and intimate friend. Perhaps, more than
any other Persian poet, it is Hafiz who most fully accesses the mystical,
healing dimensions of poetry. Daniel Ladinsky has made it his life's work to
create modern, inspired translations of the world's most profound spiritual
poetry. Through Ladinsky's translations, Hafiz's voice comes alive across the
centuries singing his message of love.
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From Amazon.com: This clever and inventive tale works on three
levels: as an intriguing science fiction concept, a realistic character study
and a touching love story. Henry De Tamble is a Chicago librarian with "Chrono
Displacement" disorder; at random times, he suddenly disappears without
warning and finds himself in the past or future, usually at a time or place of
importance in his life. This leads to some wonderful paradoxes. From his point
of view, he first met his wife, Clare, when he was 28 and she was 20. She ran
up to him exclaiming that she'd known him all her life. He, however, had never
seen her before. But when he reaches his 40s, already married to Clare, he
suddenly finds himself time traveling to Clare's childhood and meeting her as
a six-year-old. The book alternates between Henry and Clare's points of view,
and so does the narration. Reed ably expresses the longing of the one always
left behind, the frustrations of their unusual lifestyle, and above all, her
overriding love for Henry. Likewise, Burns evokes the fear of a man who never
knows where or when he'll turn up, and his gratitude at having Clare, whose
love is his anchor.
3. What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
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From Amazon.com: Poet, playwright, and translator Daniel Mark Epstein certainly has the right background to understand and evaluate poet, playwright, and translator Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)--though Millay didn't write biographies. Readers of Epstein's Sister Aimee and Nat King Cole will recognize the intense personal engagement the author brings to his task. He's not afraid to express an almost physical fascination for his subjects, which is especially appropriate for the flamboyant Millay, who insisted on the right to take as many lovers as she pleased and to write about them in some of the greatest erotic poetry in American verse. Epstein focuses on that poetry, deciphering the affairs that fueled it and elucidating the boldly iconoclastic, almost cynical acceptance of love's fleeting nature that informs it. (Of the last sonnet in A Few Figs from Thistles, with its notorious putdown, "I shall forget you presently, my dear / So make the most of this, your little day," he remarks: "For a woman, not yet thirty, to compose and market such a poem... was a scandal, an alarm, and a red flag to censors.") While the Edna St. Vincent Millay who emerges in Nancy Milford's Savage Beauty is indelibly shaped by her upbringing, particularly her relationship with her mother and sisters, Epstein's Millay is a self-created goddess of love and literature. It's fascinating to compare these two biographies, published nearly simultaneously and each with considerable merits. Milford's lengthy book, the product of three decades of research, is lavish with details and comprehensive in scope. Epstein's more selective work excels in cogent summaries and forcefully stated opinions. Either book will satisfy readers with an interest in Millay or American literature; really passionate aficionados of the art of biography will want to read both.
Original Release Date: 2004
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From Amazon.com: Boasting an
enthralling voice many have regarded as reminiscent of Billie Holiday's,
Madeleine Peyroux burst onto the music scene eight years ago with the
extremely successful release of
Dreamland. Championed by major
publications such as The New York Times and Time Magazine,
Peyroux was immediately recognized as a remarkably talented singer with a
promising future. With the release of her long awaited follow-up album
Careless Love, Peyroux's potential as an artist is truly
realized. Her smoky voice and knowing delivery make each song her own, whether
she's singing vintage tunes by W.C. Handy and Hank Williams, or contemporary
songs by Leonard Cohen and Elliott Smith. Producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell,
Shawn Colvin) weaves strands of acoustic blues, country ballads, classic jazz,
torch songs and pop into a vibrant fabric that is both timeless and thoroughly
up to date, with Peyroux's arresting vocals always front and center.
2. Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
Original Release Date: 1993
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From Amazon.com: Their first full-length shows a band fully formed, with faint debts to The Sundays and The Smiths, but turning out more-than-tuneful pop behind the gorgeous lilt of Dolores O'Riordan. "Dreams" and "Linger" both seem to weave magic spells that remain even after the tracks pass, and there is a glorious freshness to the performances that's impossible to resist. It remains their most satisfying outing.
Original Release Date: 2003
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From Amazon.com: Noted English screenwriter Richard Curtis makes his directorial bow with this romantic comedy that follows the dizzying foibles of no less than a dozen couples, featuring a cast that includes Hugh Grant as a bachelor British PM and Billy Bob Thornton as a disturbing hybrid of the worst of Clinton and Bush. Seemingly taking its lead from Bridget Jones's Diary and its sequel (both of which Curtis also wrote), Love's rich, eclectic collection of pop songs becomes something more than mere movie-soundtrack wallpaper. Indeed, tracks as disparate as Joni Mitchell's hauntingly autumnal remake of "Both Sides Now" and the Pointer Sisters' effusive '80s hit "Jump" function somewhere between supporting player and narrative Greek chorus. It's a mature, often introspective collection that mixes the expected chestnuts (the Beach Boys' evergreen "God Only Knows") and covers (Eva Cassidy's stately version of Christine McVie's "Songbird," an R&B-infused take of "All You Need Is Love" by Lynden David Hall) with standout work from Norah Jones (a torched-up "Turn Me On"), Texas (the Dusty Springfield-esque dramatics of "I'll See It Through"), and Wyclef Jean's joyous "Take Me As I Am." Underscoring the film's Christmas subtext are three holiday-themed bonus cuts by Otis Redding, Billy Mack (the film's resident rock star burnout, played by Bill Nighy), and Olivia Olson.
1. The Notebook (New Line Platinum Series)
(2004) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: When you consider that old-fashioned tearjerkers are an endangered species in Hollywood, a movie like The Notebook can be embraced without apology. Yes, it's syrupy sweet and clogged with clichés, and one can only marvel at the irony of Nick Cassavetes directing a weeper that his late father John--whose own films were devoid of saccharine sentiment--would have sneered at. Still, this touchingly impassioned and great-looking adaptation of the popular Nicholas Sparks novel has much to recommend, including appealing young costars (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams) and appealing old costars (James Garner and Gena Rowlands, the director's mother) playing the same loving couple in (respectively) early 1940s and present-day North Carolina. He was poor, she was rich, and you can guess the rest; decades later, he's unabashedly devoted, and she's drifting into the memory-loss of senile dementia. How their love endured is the story preserved in the titular notebook that he reads to her in their twilight years. The movie's open to ridicule, but as a delicate tearjerker it works just fine. Message in a Bottle and A Walk to Remember were also based on Sparks novels, suggesting a triple-feature that hopeless romantics will cherish.
2. Annie Hall
(1997) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: Annie Hall is one of the truest, most bittersweet romances on film. In it, Allen plays a thinly disguised version of himself: Alvy Singer, a successful--if neurotic--television comedian living in Manhattan. Annie (the wholesomely luminous Dianne Keaton) is a Midwestern transplant who dabbles in photography and sings in small clubs. When the two meet, the sparks are immediate--if repressed. Alone in her apartment for the first time, Alvy and Annie navigate a minefield of self-conscious "is-this-person-someone-I'd-want-to-get-involved-with?" conversation. As they speak, subtitles flash their unspoken thoughts: the likes of "I'm not smart enough for him" and "I sound like a jerk." Despite all their caution, they connect, and we're swept up in the flush of their new romance. Allen's antic sensibility shines here in a series of flashbacks to Alvy's childhood, growing up, quite literally, under a rumbling roller coaster. His boisterous Jewish family's dinner table shares a split screen with the WASP-y Hall's tight-lipped holiday table, one Alvy has joined for the first time. His position as outsider is uncontestable he looks down the table and sizes up Annie's "Grammy Hall" as "a classic Jew-hater."
The relationship arcs, as does Annie's growing desire for independence. It quickly becomes clear that the two are on separate tracks, as what was once endearing becomes annoying. Annie Hall embraces Allen's central themes--his love affair with New York (and hatred of Los Angeles), how impossible relationships are, and his fear of death. But their balance is just right, the chemistry between Allen's worrywart Alvy and Keaton's gangly, loopy Annie is one of the screen's best pairings. It couldn't be more engaging.
3. Normal
(2003) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: As Roy (Tom Wilkinson, In the Bedroom) and Irma (Jessica Lange) celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary, Roy passes out. While meeting with their pastor, Roy reveals that he's a woman trapped in a man's body, and he wants to get a sex change--setting in motion a complex and emotionally fraught conflict between husband and wife, individual and community, and parent and child. Normal explores Roy's gender dysphoria with empathy, but also has an eye for the social and familial absurdities that come up. The humor, far from trivializing the issue, steers it away from cloying sentiment or politically correct sanctimony. The movie captures the confusion of Roy's friends and coworkers with realism and without judgment, and the stressful changes of Roy and Irma's relationship aren't sugarcoated or made into a moral lesson. Both Lange and Wilkinson are superb, as are the skillful script and direction. | |||||||||
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