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Alex Hayes (Joe E. Tata), a shady and unscrupulous construction mogul, ends up meeting his deceased business partner Jake Caine (Carmine Caridi), who literally climbs out of Hell to see him. Alex also comes face to face with the Devil (Peter Bromilow) himself. Thoroughly impressed by his lifetime of sin, the Devil offers Alex a position among ...
The Five-Forty-Eight is a short story written by John Cheever that was originally published in the April 10, 1954, issue of The New Yorker [1] [2] and later collected in The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories (1958) and The Stories of John Cheever (1978). In 1955 The Five-Forty-Eight was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Magazine Award ...
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie was a modest box office success for Paramount Pictures. The film was released on May 4, 1990 in the United States, opening in third place that weekend. [5] It grossed a total of $16,324,573 domestically. [6]
Born in 1915 in New York City on Staten Island, John Dehner was the middle child of three children of Ella Susana (née Dehner) and Ralph LeRoy Forkum. [2] [a] Dehner's father was an accomplished artist who was widely recognized in the United States as a landscape painter, illustrator, and a specialist in painting "highly realistic" backgrounds for stage productions and later for animated ...
John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". [1] [2] His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born; and Italy, especially Rome.
he tales were scrubbed further and the Disney princesses -- frail yet occasionally headstrong, whenever the trait could be framed as appealing — were born. In 1937, . Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" was released to critical acclaim, paving the way for future on-screen adaptations of classic tales.
One question that splits critics is whether the Merchant's tale is a fabliau. [citation needed] Typically a description for a tale of carnal lust and frivolous bed-hopping, some would argue that especially the latter half of the tale, where Damyan and May have sex in the tree with the blind Januarie at the foot of the tree, represents fabliau.
The social structure of the suburban Shady Hill provides Cash no means to reckon with his deterioration. Literary critic Samuel Coale writes: The broader view of the human condition transcends the detailed reproduction of the suburban social scene that long fascinated Cheever in his earlier tales…In "O Youth and Beauty!"