Fans of Prison Break (superb guilty pleasure suspense for 44 episodes) will note that Season 3, of 13 episodes, (soon available on disc in the UK) was rudely (and thankfully) interrupted by the writer's strike - leading directly, this autumn, to a full Season 4. The series has resurrected its most beloved charater, Dr. Sara Tancredi. Eyewear, which had refused to watch the brutal new season due to its abrupt, cynical termination of the Tancredi character, may be tempted back to the fold. The series writers claimed the third season was about "redemption" - but Season 4 could really, be - for them.
THAT HANDSOME MAN A PERSONAL BRIEF REVIEW BY TODD SWIFT I could lie and claim Larkin, Yeats , or Dylan Thomas most excited me as a young poet, or even Pound or FT Prince - but the truth be told, it was Thom Gunn I first and most loved when I was young. Precisely, I fell in love with his first two collections, written under a formalist, Elizabethan ( Fulke Greville mainly), Yvor Winters triad of influences - uniquely fused with an interest in homerotica, pop culture ( Brando, Elvis , motorcycles). His best poem 'On The Move' is oddly presented here without the quote that began it usually - Man, you gotta go - which I loved. Gunn was - and remains - so thrilling, to me at least, because so odd. His elegance, poise, and intelligence is all about display, about surface - but the surface of a panther, who ripples with strength beneath the skin. With Gunn, you dressed to have sex. Or so I thought. Because I was queer (I maintain the right to lay claim to that
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I remind you that our Future Prime Minister has already won from 2001 to 2006 in Europe a record of "buffoonery". It seems that THESE are the people who get votes now.
Now the only hope is Obama.
But it's the "Iron" age according to the Hindus, the Dharma cow standing on one leg only.No escape. Better to brace against something even worse.
Congratulations for Orbis, I have received my contributor's copy of 143: great Carole's editorial.
Best, Davide