Despite what certain voices on X would have you believe, Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster adaptation of The Odyssey is, in fact, a fairly straightforward adaptation of The Odyssey. Now that the movie’s review embargo has been lifted, I can inform you that it does, in fact, tell the story of a guy named Odysseus. It’s got a long journey home; it’s got episodic stops at various monster-filled islands; it’s got a Cyclops and some sirens and a climactic battle scene. Even so, I walked out of my screening of the film certain that after The Odyssey’s conservative detractors see it—assuming they actually do see it—they will somehow be even angrier than they are now, despite how faithful Nolan often is to this ancient source material. Why? Much like Odysseus, you’ll need to go on a voyage to the very ends of the earth—i.e., click the link below—to find out.
Elsewhere, following the news of this week’s royal engagement, Hadley Hall Meares looks back on some of the most bedazzling engagement rings in royal history. More tomorrow! |
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The Oscar winner’s latest is a Trojan horse of a film: a rip-roaring blockbuster secretly carrying a sober meditation on civility and intolerance. And Elon Musk is going to despise it. |
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Royal marriages were once brokered through ambassadors and diplomats, but now, the promise of a lifetime together can come with rare gems, colorful stones, and family heirlooms galore. |
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For more than a century, Greenwich, Connecticut, has attracted some of the biggest, newest, shiniest fortunes in America. Today that money comes from the trillion-dollar hedge-fund business, which occupies a third of the town’s office space, and whose managers are behind a decade of over-the-top real estate deals, teardowns, and mega-mansions.
From Paul Tudor Jones II’s monster Monticello to Steven Cohen’s $14.8 million cash purchase, Nina Munk discovers just how far Greenwich’s latest tycoons will go—and meets the one who finally went too far. |
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