'The Great Gatsby' has that Baz Luhrmann allure - USA Today

In this week's episode, Stevens and David Haglund discuss the new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan. Does it capture the spirit of the book?The account of how he happened to ponder The Great Gatsby as his next project nearly a decade ago while listening to an audiobook version aboard the Trans-Siberian Railway from Beijing to Paris is already the stuff of legend. He insists it is all trueAs a caveat, I should state up front that I have not read The Great Gatsby since high school, a decade and a half ago. I remember liking all the rich and mysterious writing in F. Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel, and I think the paper I wrote on itIt should be a great weekend for movies, Old Sport. (Yes, that was a "Gatsby" pun).One spring just before the financial

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