Campbell Scott studied with Stella Adler and Geraldine Page. He has appeared on Broadway in Long Day's Journey Into Night, Ah! Wilderness, Hay Fever, and The Queen and the Rebels. Campbell's Shakespearean roles include the title role in Hamlet, Angelo in Measure for Measure, the title role of Pericles, and Iago in Othello. His many films include "Longtime Companion", "The Sheltering Sky", "Dying Young", "Singles", "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle", "Only with You", "The Spanish Prisoner", "Big Night", "The Daytrippers", "Ship of Fools", "Roger Dodger", "Loverboy", and "The Dying Gaul", for which he starred and produced.
Mr. Scott co-directed the film Big Night with Stanley Tucci, directed Off the Map, and directed and produced Company Retreat...Show More »
For television he starred in, co-directed, and produced Hamlet for the Odyssey Network. He also starred as Joseph Kennedy, Jr. in The Kennedys of Massachusetts, co-starred with Ben Kingsley and Joanna Lumley in Sweeney Todd for Showtime, and co-starred with Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Love Letter. Campbell has read over 30 audiobooks including The Shining and Cell by Stephen King and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway.
Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the New York art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city parallel the soaring heights - and, at times, the dark lows - of the art world and the country from the late 1990s through today.
Richard Elster was a scholar - an outsider - when he was called to a meeting with government war planners, asked to apply "ideas and principles to such matters as troop deployment and counterinsurgency". We see Elster at the end of his service. He has retreated to the desert, "somewhere south of nowhere", in search of space and geologic time. There he is joined by a filmmaker, Jim Finley, intent on documenting his experience.
Banned in America for almost 30 years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods and Miller's outrageous sexual expolits, Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature.
When he falls ill on his way home from school, 15-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover--then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.