Moocher??

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

Teaser from an interview with Jackie Earle Haley at Salon.com: Fifteen years ago, Jackie Earle Haley had given up on acting. Now the former teenage heartthrob is back with an Oscar nomination for his creepy role in “Little Children.” We’re talking about Moocher from Breaking Away, right? Now, Breaking Away is one of my favorite [...]

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Unsafe companion: Macaulay on Boswell

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

Loved this quote from TNR‘s Open University blog: Some of the world’s greatest triumphs involve unlikely protagonists, some times revealing surprising gifts, at others triumphing not despite but because of their flaws and deficiencies. Here is the delightful Lord Macaulay on James Boswell and his Johnson biography: If he had not been a great fool, [...]

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