Thursday, April 14, 2005

The French trailer for "The Bridge of San Luis Rey."
  • This Thornton Wilder book was must reading on our summer reading lists when I was in prep school, and was universally considered to be the most boring book on the list.
  • It has a monster cast, featuring DeNiro, Keitel, and ol' F. Salieri himself.
  • "It opens in the aftermath of an inexplicable tragedy--a tiny foot-bridge in Peru breaks, and five people hurtle to their deaths. For Brother Juniper, a humble monk who witnesses the catastrophe, the question in inescapable. Why those five? Suddenly, Brother Juniper is committed to discover what manner of lives they led--and whether it was divine intervention or a capricious fate that took their lives."

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