After Bradley Cooper was named to play Lucifer and Ben Walker the archangel Michael, Variety reports that Djimon Hounsou will play the “angel of death” in the Hollywood adaptation of Milton’s Paradise Lost, directed by Alex Proyas, who did I, Robot and The Crow.
And also Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine is going to beRead More
Ron Howard and Brian Grazer will adapt Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer’s book about Mormons who murdered.
Bradley Cooper will play Lucifer in a film adaptation of Milton’s Paradise Lost directed by Alex Proyas, who also gave us I, Robot. “Better to reign in hell than serve in heav’n,” although it’s Read More
Is it just me, or is there a kind of suspended-animation feel to these mid-December weeks? Santa Claus is coming to town, but he’s not here yet; Barack Obama is coming, too, but that’s not till January. ’Tis the season to be waiting—and to help us understand our predicament, we have Harold Schweizer’s On Waiting Read More
Of certain artists it may truly be said that they remain,
both in their life and their work, a considerable conundrum long after they
have been elevated to the status of a classic. The English poet and painter
William Blake (1757-1827), whose work is currently the subject of a remarkable
exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum Read More
