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Gabo revisited
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/07/2012
» On the last page of Gerald Martin's excellent biography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the biographer recounts a conversation he had with his subject after a function in the Columbian city of Cartagena in 2007. Marquez, or Gabo to his friends, had given a speech to the guests that also included Carlos Fuentes and Bill Clinton. Gabo, then 80, already old and weak, talked about his years of living in poverty with his wife and how _ because he hardly had any money _ he could mail only half the manuscript of One Hundred Years Of Solitude to the publisher when he completed it.
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Time capsule unlocked
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/07/2012
» Before photographs of people outnumbered the entire population of the world, having one's image captured on film was a privilege, a real cause for pride.
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Knight of the living dead
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 20/07/2012
» It's a fate that can't be helped, but it must be said that we all seem to miss the Joker. Or to be precise, we miss Heath Ledger and his wormy nihilism.
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Prime number
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/07/2012
» With a smile on his face Jira Maligool is celebrating the seven-year itch. Or rather, seven years of hits.
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SEA Write's never wrong
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 30/07/2012
» A love-triangle set in the distant past, a compelling fight for a child's life and the strange events following a funeral are among the finalists for Thailand's most prestigious literary award.
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Regionalcross-Over
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/08/2012
» It helps that the part doesn't require him to speak much. Playing a soldier stationed in the Spratlys, a group of disputed islands in the South China Sea several nations lay claim to with some even flexing their military might, Ananda Everingham, in the new Filipino film Kalayaan, only has to speak three sentences in Tagalog.
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Sex by the book
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 03/08/2012
» Juliette Binoche is fashionably frazzled, her hair unkempt, her fingers tapping the keyboard and her eyes tired by journalistic dedication.
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Ramadan in the city
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/08/2012
» In his car he arrives just when the light turns serene orange. Thanarat Wacharapisut is in white shirt and brown slacks.
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Bourne this way
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 10/08/2012
» The action heroes of the 21st century have the option of being David and not Goliath. They're a compact ball of energy, a clenched fist, a meteor with a low centre of gravity, darting and zipping, not rumbling and thundering. I've grown up watching Eastwood, Stallone, Willis, Schwarzenegger; but the current generation of multiplex-goers, besides the usual slab of pen-fed meat like Jason Statham or Daniel Craig, also have the choice of skinny Tobey Maguire as Spidey, little James McAvoy as one of the X-men, and of course, Matt Damon, dense and crackling, as the man with no memory, Jason Bourne.
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Enlisting agony
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/08/2012
» Two weeks ago, Alfred Hitchcock got a little help from bleary-eyed, worldwide critics to stare down Orson Welles. "King Kane dethroned," this page headlined the news that Vertigo finally unseated Citizen Kane, the champion of the past 50 years, to take the top spot in a once-every-10-year poll to find the Greatest Films of All Time. Such cinephilic pursuit, done by sedentary experts, is not remotely as stimulating as Bolt's or Phelps's photo-finish performances of recent memories, but greatness, like election, has to be justified at an appropriate interval, for public benefit. The canon needs to be reinforced, and here we're lulled into the land of the list.
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