Brad Balfour: British Director Justin Chadwick Get the Gold Star for The First Grader

Brad Balfour: British Director Justin Chadwick Get the Gold Star for The First Grader
The First Grader tells a basic heartfelt story about an older man, the 84-year-old Kimani N’gan’ga Maruge, finally fulfilling a long-unresolved dream — to learn to read.
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Q&A with Alexandra Davies
Editor’s note: This is a longer version of the scholar-athlete profile that appeared in today’s Dispatch.
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Those Bad Borgias
Ingrid D. Rowland Showtime Networks Inc. François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger, Jeremy Irons, Lotte Verbeek, and David Oakes in the Showtime series The Borgias Caravaggio novels, as a knowledgeable friend has observed, are not only unrelentingly bad, but bad in the same way (this friend remains nameless in order to avoid the remonstrances of outraged Caravaggio novelists and Derek Jarman ). A …
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