Joan Didion has been given a gift with words and a surfeit of tragedy to write about. The contiguous deaths of her husband, filmmaker John Dunne, and her daughter, Quintana Roo, who died of complications from an illness when she was 39 and freshly-married, has inspired two linked Didion memoirs -- "The Year of Magical Thinking" on Dunne's death, and now, six years later, "Blue Nights" on Quintana Roo's (Didion's friend Sara Davidson has written a companion memoir on the happenings as well, which you can preview here).
This time around, Didion asked her nephew, the director Griffin Dunne, to make a film to go with her book. We've got a clip below of what Dunne calls "an audiobook for the eyes," footage of Didion reading aloud cut with old photographs and evocative scenes set to Didion's narration. The Daily Beast hints the project may evolve into a full-length Didion documentary.
This time around, Didion asked her nephew, the director Griffin Dunne, to make a film to go with her book. We've got a clip below of what Dunne calls "an audiobook for the eyes," footage of Didion reading aloud cut with old photographs and evocative scenes set to Didion's narration. The Daily Beast hints the project may evolve into a full-length Didion documentary.
- 11/2/2011
- by Mallika Rao
- Huffington Post
As the Ncaa college basketball tournament kicks off, The Daily Beast ranks all 68 teams based on their grades and graduation rates, from first to worst. Click here for the smart bracket.
The sports high holiday known as March Madness returns tomorrow. But the Ncaa college basketball tournament is more than friendly competition-it rivals the Super Bowl as the most-wagered upon athletic event, as brackets fan out across every office, school and website in America.
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With thought we might look at the tournament bracket with a more academic bent. With all the concentration on the court, we thought we'd examine how the 68 teams in the tournament fare academically. To find out which schools are faltering, The Daily Beast considered all 68 college teams in this year's March Madness according to their graduation success rate (Gsr), Academic Progress Rate (Apr...
The sports high holiday known as March Madness returns tomorrow. But the Ncaa college basketball tournament is more than friendly competition-it rivals the Super Bowl as the most-wagered upon athletic event, as brackets fan out across every office, school and website in America.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Best of the Buzzer Beaters
With thought we might look at the tournament bracket with a more academic bent. With all the concentration on the court, we thought we'd examine how the 68 teams in the tournament fare academically. To find out which schools are faltering, The Daily Beast considered all 68 college teams in this year's March Madness according to their graduation success rate (Gsr), Academic Progress Rate (Apr...
- 3/14/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
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