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mojosmom ([personal profile] mojosmom) wrote2008-04-01 08:09 am
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Two deaths

Jules Dassin has died. Now will somebody please release "He Who Must Die" on DVD?

We have also lost Robert Fagles, the brilliant translator of Homer and Virgil. (I admit, however, to a sentimental fondness for Lattimore, whose translation first introduced me to the power and beauty of Homer.)

[identity profile] zugenia.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Tonight at Girl & a Gun, D screened Night in the City, which I'd never seen. Best wrestling scene ever!

[identity profile] randoymwords.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
ah. I just finished the Richard Lattimore Odyssey. Being very satisfied with it (and Lattimore's other translations for the U of C), I've been wary of reading yet one more translation of Homer...