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'The Great Gatsby' has that Baz Luhrmann allure - USA Today

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'The Great Gatsby' has that Baz Luhrmann allure - USA Today

In this week's episode, Stevens and David Haglund discuss the new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Fantastic Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan. Does it capture the spirit of the book?

The tab of how he happened to ponder The Fantastic Gatsby as his next project nearly a decade ago while listening to an audiobook translation aboard the Trans-Siberian Railway from Beijing to Paris is already the material of legend. He insists it is all right

As a caveat, I should state up front that I have not look into The Fantastic Gatsby since high school, a decade and a half ago. I remember liking all the rich and mysterious writing in F. Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel, and I reckon the paper I wrote on it

It should be a fantastic weekend for movies, Ancient Sport. (Yes, that was a "Gatsby" pun).

One spring just before the financial crisis struck, students at Princeton University threw a Gatsby party. "It's going to be huge," said an organizer, promising all the trappings of the novel's soirees. "It's going to be grandiose.

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