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Graham Greene: Quiet American
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Loving Graham Greene is a beautifully controlled story about a woman unable to control the consequences of her acts; G. K. Wuori’s novel, An American Outrage, lets itself go from the beginning. It’s a blowsy, folksy, tragi-comic, catch-as-catch-can tale of lives gone off the rails in a small town in Maine. Quillifarkeag–Quilli, for short–has few claims to fame; it "has its basic streets and roads, its basic services. Its institutions consist of a few churches and schools, a branch of the state university, a modest hospital, and a good-sized potato-processing plant whose french fries you have eaten." (It ... provided the setting for Wuori’s previous book, the story collection, Nude in Tub.)
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Graham Greene, the English novelist, was a regular visitor to Achill Island in the late 1940s. Greene he stayed in the Achill cottage of his lover, wealthy American society hostess Catherine Walston. Graham Greene finished several novels on Achill Island, including Heart of the Matter and The Fallen Idol.
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A full-blooded Oneida from the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, Canada, actor Graham Greene is best known for playing Native American roles. His characters are almost always positive and very dignified. He has been a strong role model and has proved that there is a place for Native actors outside the Western genre. Though he has paved the way for other Native actors in film and television, Greene prefers to think of himself simply as an actor capable of playing any role that comes his way. Parents and young children know him best as Mr. Crabby Tree from the children's series The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon for which he received a Gemini Award.
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Built in 1928, the Majestic Hotel offered opulence much closer to the life Greene enjoyed as a wealthy and famous novelist than to the seedy back-alley rooms inhabited by Tom Fowler, Greene's protagonist in The Quiet American. Perhaps Greene liked the Majestic because here he was somewhat insulated from the dangers of the street. In the cozy central courtyard, lounging around the pool he could easily have imagined being in Nice or St. Tropez, and Greene was a born again Frenchman. The Majestic's roof bar has a fine view both up and down the river where you can contemplate the strange flavors of Vietnam's cultural melange from a safe height. Below, sampans share the waterway with high speed hydrofoils. After dark, above the dark tangle of bamboo scaffolding and corrugated iron shanties on the opposite bank, giant neon billboards advertising Heinekin, Phillips and AIWA seem to hang suspended.
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The first film role Greene took came in 1982 in the movie Running Brave; he played a friend of Native American track star Billy Mills. Two years later, in 1984, Greene played a Huron extra in Revolution, a movie about the U.S. War of Independence which was shot in England and starred Al Pacino. In the meantime, Greene had a daughter by Toronto actress Carol Lazare in 1981. The death of his father in 1984... started what Greene described in a Maclean's interview with Brian D. Johnson as a "period of fast cars and guns." Moving to the country around the same time, Greene found himself out of work and selling hand-painted t-shirts in Toronto by 1988.
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The Quiet American by Graham Greene ought to be required reading for anyone planning a visit to Vietnam. For more than forty years, this prophetic portrait of the failing days of French colonial rule has been alternately praised and reviled by critics, but still stands as the definitive, though fictionalized account of the terrible confrontation between moral dissipation and dangerous naivete that plagued this tropical nation for so many decades. Vietnam has come a long way from those troubled times.
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