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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 10, 2014, 12:10:04 pm ---I'm in the middle of a duty article about drug trafficking on the Mosquito Coast. It's sad and horrifying.
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--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 10, 2014, 12:56:19 pm ---I just started that one. The whole subject sounds depressing. :(
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--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 11, 2014, 11:25:19 am ---It is.
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Figured as much. :(
serious crayons:
Meanwhile, I'm also reading the profile of Jennifer Weiner in the Jan. 13 issue. Much lighter, but I already follow the controversies surrounding male and female writers and literary vs. popular novels, so it's pretty old news to me. Plus, much of it is about events that took place online (which is why I'm familiar with them), which gives the piece and oddly airless and inconsequential-seeming quality.
Jeff Wrangler:
I'm puzzled.
In the Theatre/Now Playing section of the January 6 issue, I noticed an entry for "a musical entertainment with panache and precision" called A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. When I read the description, I immediately recognized the plot of an old (1949) and very delightful Alec Guinness movie called Kind Hearts and Coronets:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041546/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The similarity even extends to one actor playing eight different roles, as Guinness does in the movie.
There is, however, no recognition in The New Yorker of this relationship.
Is this because The New Yorker no longer employs anyone who would know such a thing? Or does The New Yorker no longer care? Or does The New Yorker think it no longer has any readers who would know or care?
???
southendmd:
Jeff, you are correct about the connection between the new musical and the Alec Guinness film. IIRC, the original review surely recognized this fact. The play opened in October/November and was reviewed earlier. The "now playing" blurb is just that, a blurb.
BTW, I saw this play last week and it was great fun!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: southendmd on January 15, 2014, 03:31:43 pm ---Jeff, you are correct about the connection between the new musical and the Alec Guinness film. IIRC, the original review surely recognized this fact. The play opened in October/November and was reviewed earlier. The "now playing" blurb is just that, a blurb.
BTW, I saw this play last week and it was great fun!
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It ought to be. The movie is wonderful.
If one of the magazine's regular critics did a full-on review of it, I must have missed it.
I knew in a moment it was Kind Hearts and Coronets. Clever idea to make a musical out of it. :)
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