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Gardeners: Failed by fiction and film

Gardeners: Failed by fiction and film

I recently caught up with Mike Leigh’s rather splendid film Happy Go Lucky. In one scene, the incurably cheerful heroine Poppy, with her younger sister Suzy and best friend Zoe, visits her other sister Helen. The trip is not a succe [...]

Posted On : Nov, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Nonfiction: The Taxonomy of Melancholy

When Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman came back to Broadway in 1999, the director, looking for insight into the character of Willy Loman, sent the script to two psychiatrists, asking them to diagnose him. They independently agreed [...]

Posted On : Aug, 03 2007 | Comments : 0

Nonfiction: The Taxonomy of Melancholy

When Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman came back to Broadway in 1999, the director, looking for insight into the character of Willy Loman, sent the script to two psychiatrists, asking them to diagnose him. They independently agreed [...]

Posted On : Jul, 14 2007 | Comments : 0

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