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To: epicure who wrote (5071)	6/13/2005 10:44:32 AM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51730

I have not yet seen The Merhcant of Venice, but will. Jeremy Irons and Al Pacino together is a must see. I have been a huge fan of Irons ever since I first saw Brideshead Revisited, which in my book is probably the finest television production of all time. I have seen (probably five times) and enjoyed (also five times) Rashomon, though the voices in One Foot in Eden do not have contradictory stories. Each character moves the story aong, fills in some blanks and provides their perspective. What happened and why slowly emerges. Southern Appalachia was in transition during the 1950s and the novel addresses the changes that were taking place during that period. While Jospeh and Celice represent an "elite", at least intellectually, the characters that inhabit One Foot in Eden are ordinary people, mostly uneducated. Regardless, they all have an inner dignity and their actions are all dictated by their own consistent world view. As a lifelong Chicago boy, I found it a fascinating glimpse into a culture not normally on my radar screen.