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Revolutionary Road Directed by Sam Mendes Paramount Vantage Opens December 26, Regal Union Square and Loews Lincoln Square The Haunting Winslet and DiCapno awake to Yates's suburb nightmare BY SCOTT FOUNDAS No writer ever gazed deeper or more despairingly into the prison of middle-class American conformity than Richard Yates, which may explain why none of his books sold more than 12,000 copies in his lifetime and why it's taken more than 40 years for one of them to reach the big screen, ft is said that we go to the movies for escapism, after all, and Yates's great subject was the very thing many of us seek to escape-namely, the lives of prefabricated mediocrity we settle for when personal ambition yields to the desire to be "just like everyone else."
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The Haunting
Revolutionary Road
Directed by Sam MendesParamount VantageOpens December 26, Regal UnionSquare and Loews Lincoln SquareThe HauntingWinslet and DiCapno awake to Yates's suburb nightmareBY SCOTT FOUNDASNo writer ever gazed deeper or more despairingly into the prison of middle-class American conformity th...See the full content of this document
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