In the following essay, Burrill—one of the producers on Polanski's Tess—describes the process of bringing the film through production to release.
Roman Polanski first approache...
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In the following essay, Fierz argues that Tess, Polanski's cinematic adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, is based on a misreading of Tess's character a...
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For nearly a month after she was stabbed to death, Linda Damm's body lay in the trunk of her car inside her garage while her 15-year-old daughter and friends used her debit card to "do teenage stuf...
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Pheasant hunting season brings out the best in Tess, a 5-year-old German wirehaired pointer who became a national champion despite the loss of one leg. "When you let her out of the truck, she's hun...
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A teenager who stabbed his girlfriend's mother to death was sentenced to 40 years in prison Tuesday, after he apologized to her family for causing "pain and tears and grief."Prosecutors say Linda D...
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10: 1984
The book that gave us Big Brother also presented Winston and Julia, the lovers who are imprisoned and forced to betray each other before being reduced to emotionless drones. That's love fo...
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A Philippine passenger ferry with 237 people on board caught fire south of Manila Sunday, killing at least two people, coast guard officials said.Passengers have been rescued by passing vessels, bu...
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Police combed the Mount Washington Valley on Tuesday for a gunman who killed three people in what appeared to be a robbery at an outdoors gear store.The manager of the Army Barracks store and two m...
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Visitors to a park where two news helicopters crashed after a midair collision left flowers, cards and candles as tributes to the four victims Sunday, as federal investigators worked to remove the ...
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Tom Cruise's lawyer calls new book "sick stuff" NEW YORK (Reute...
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WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERSFICTION1. "You've Been Warned" by James Patterson, Howard Roughan (Little, Brown)2. "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Hardcover)3. "Eclipse" b...
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It's not the cuddliest of sleeping companions, but that didn't stop Jonathan and Sebastian Mendez. The 9-year-old twins knew exactly where they wanted to lay their sleeping bags for the night _ und...
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Critical Essay by Timothy Burrill
Colo. teens held after mother found dead
