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The other night, my daughter, Megan, and I saw\u00a0 The Words<\/em><\/a>, a rather intriguing film about a writer, played by Bradley Cooper (Limitless). The fact that Cooper was in nearly every scene, that he carried the character of the writer, Rory Jansen, says a lot about his talent.\u00a0 This guy is good, convincing, <\/em>and those baby blue eyes of his are so expressive you fall into them and forget about everything questionable thing in life. Only those eyes exist.<\/p>\n

Okay, so maybe the shade of blue is the result of contacts. But, whatever. Cooper plays the perfect aspiring, duplicitous writer who is so desperate to be published and recognized that he plagiarizes a manuscript he finds in an old briefcase that his wife buys for him.\u00a0 The brief case bit is a bit over the top in this digital age \u2013 until you realize the manuscript he found \u00a0was written after World War II, typed on an old Remington.<\/p>\n

I loved the historical layers of this story, how we are led through the strange and erratic and often tragic lives of the people who are somehow involved and connected to this old manuscript. Jeremy Irons<\/a>\u00a0 plays the old man who actually wrote the manuscript that Cooper found, a true account of his love for a French woman he met during the war, their subsequent marriage, the birth and death of their young daughter. He\u2019s brilliant in this role. Then there\u2019s Dennis Quaid, who plays the character of Clay Hammond who has written a bio about Cooper. Except\u2026well, I won\u2019t add a spoiler here.The movie is riveting \u2013 until the end. The ending is so unsatisfying that\u00a0 it\u2019s hard to believe it was written by the screenwriter who conceived the film. This ending felt like a committee had the final say.<\/p>\n

And yet, I think The Words <\/em>is worth your time, if only for a retrospective. The publishing world depicted in this film is brutal, ugly. It\u2019s the world that prompted Richard Brautigan (Trout Fishing in America<\/em>) to commit suicide. It\u2019s the world where legends were made \u2013 Hemingway, Kesey, Fitzgerald, Rawlings. It\u2019s the publishing world before Steve Jobs came along and leveled the playing field. You get a real sense of how publishing has changed.<\/p>\n

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