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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 — 5D

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 — 5C

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Rental Info.

(734)320-1245

NOW LEASING FOR FALL 2009! LOCATIONS:

HOUSES! 707, 709, 713 Church St. 1 & 2 BEDROOM APARTMENTS! 715, 721 Church St. *Parking included

*Great Location: Across from East Quad *Beautiful, Spacious, Quiet

*Heat and water paid for most properties

*Furnished & Unfurnished Available

*No pets, no smoking

*Laundry

*Small management co. *Excellent record of personal service

Free Rent/Group Rate Available Fall ’09!! Free Utilities 135 Adams St.

Furnished Apartments on Central Campus:

s TV Lounge s Heat & Water Included s

AMAZING AMENITIES!

Close to Campus For showing information contact Jacinda 734-545-0667 or email

FREE Wireless ! s 10 Different Styles of Apartments

s Pool s Fitness Center s Laundry Room s Study Lounge

Studio, One, Two, & Three Bedroom Apartments. Perfect On-campus Location. Now Taking Reservations for 2009-2010

149 Hill St.

jacinda@omnicron-rentals.com

Baltzell Properties •904 S. Forest Ave. - May 4 bdrm legal for 6

•1350 Geddes Ave - September Both Fully Furnished, Laundry, A/C Parking, Dishwasher! Go to Baltzellproperties.net or call 734-475-2577

The Spaly Group, Inc. Now Leasing for Fall 2009! (734) 769-7000 / (734) 769-1807

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

The Daily Beacon • 7

ENTERTAINMENT

New Bond flick lacks personality

Author spreads message about love through book character

Ben Whiteside

Robin Overby

Staff Writer

James Bond suffered terribly for the first half of this decade, but with 2006’s “Casino Royale,” Daniel Craig and director Martin Campbell (who also helmed 1995’s “GoldenEye”) multi-handedly revived the writhing franchise. It was a major financial and critical success, but no matter your stance, everybody agreed the film was something completely different for the Bond universe. Gone were the campy, over-the-top villains, underground volcano hideouts and witty one-liners spoofed in the “Austin Powers” movies. “Casino Royale” was the grittiest, most raw and most real Bond yet, and it depicted the cast as human beings who breathed, bled, felt and loved. Ultimately, “Casino Royale” picked Bond up from the “Moonraker” and put him in our backyard. The newest Bond film, “Quantum of Solace,” breaks a few rules itself, but this time the changes concern the story more than the style. It is a sequel (a first for the series) to “Casino Royale,” starting just hours after the last one left off. Indeed, the film’s universe is congruent with that of “Casino Royale.” Daniel Craig is still cool and dangerous, and the women are still classy, smoldering and willing, but this time Bond isn’t afforded the luxury of being able to sit back for a minute and just be Bond. Still, its rejection of Bond traditions isn’t what makes it a bad film — that can be attributed to the fact that it discards good storytelling techniques altogether. It’s strange that director Marc Forster (“Finding Neverland,” “Stranger Than Fiction”), who has made such thoughtful and intimate films, would produce

Junot Diaz reaches out to nerds across the literary world with his interesting and revealing book “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” Diaz captures his audience and makes his point before cordially introducing the reader to the very unique Oscar, who quotes the comic series “Fantastic Four.” “Of what import are brief, nameless lives … to Galactus?” Maybe such a life is not significant to Galactus, but Oscar’s story definitely breaks ground for nerds and superstitious believers everywhere. Ironically, the story’s backbone is the history of Oscar’s lineage, with his endless pursuit of real love accessorizing a much deeper narrative about legends, curses and a tyrannical dictator. Diaz weaves substantive issues throughout this story along with a colorful usage of Spanish, creating a very unique work of art — appropriate to the likeness of Oscar. Members of the accursed Cabral family have been driven from the Dominican Republic by the suggested supernatural dictator, Trujillo, time and again. Love seems to be the damning component for the family, yet Oscar dedicates his life, aside from being consumed in the sciencefiction realm, to finding true love. Overweight and underestimated, women are the thorn in Oscar’s side. Lola, Oscar’s rebellious and devastatingly beautiful sister, becomes his best friend and con-

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Daniel Craig stars in the newest entry of the James Bond series “Quantum of Solace” which opened in theaters last Friday. the most action-packed, butt-kicking 007 yet. There are no less than three action set-pieces before any sort of character development is given a chance to take place. The action is solid, sure, but Bond is not an action hero. Audiences love these movies for the persona at least as much as the action, and here that persona is reduced to a man on a mission to get revenge, and that’s basically it. Someone needs to make sure the next director knows the difference between Bond and Bourne. A good action sequence engages the physical senses, which those in “Quantum” undoubtedly do. What makes one great, however, is if it also engages your emotions. The people behind “Casino Royale” knew this, but Forster assumes that the emotionally charged events of the last half-hour of that film extend through to his and even

sustain it throughout its one hour and forty-six minutes. He was wrong; this is Bond at his most cold, humorless and heartless. There’s nothing on the line during the action scenes — no sense of a human element — just a robotic killing machine that you know is going to win in the end. The franchise underwent a muchneeded makeover in 2006, which hacked away what was unnecessary and replaced it with something contemporary and vital. In 2008, they’ve taken the surgery too far. In an effort to make something sleek and attractive, Forster has pushed and pulled so much that all the personality and charm — what made 007 special to begin with — is all but gone. Chill out, Bond. Order a drink.

fidant after the two siblings were forced to endure childhood with their self-indulgent mother, Beli, whose love was nothing short of suffocating. Yunior narrates the majority of the story, frequently lapsing in and out from unbiased narrator to street smart spoken-word artist. His first-hand account as Oscar’s once-upon-a-time roommate and Lola’s irresponsible lover is heartbreakingly honest, providing some comedic relief at just the right times. Diaz strategically tells this story piece by distressing piece. The fragmented storyline offers explanations essential to the Cabral’s family history, but much of the information is withheld from the reader until the last one hundred pages of the story. Diaz’s use of foreshadowing could be a deliberate attempt to imitate the ominous fuku curse that is constantly casting a shadow on the lives of the Cabrals. Still the question remains: What makes Oscar’s life wondrous? Well, maybe it’s not. But maybe Oscar is the incarnation of bullied love, always the target of worldly constraints. This science-fiction nerd is a hero in his own right. A hero for those whose love is forgotten or overshadowed, and Oscar blatantly disregards the superstitious curses that have kept his family in chains for years. Oscar is a savior of love for his family and alternative society. Diaz uses Oscar to convey the notion that even the most desolate love can prevail, and, when it doesn’t, life may lose its meaning.

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