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* "Atlantic City" (Sarandon)

** "The Hunger" (Deneuve)

*** "White Palace" (Spader)

The Hunger Game —

The Ellenberg Epigraph —

The Epigraph Source —

Susan Sarandon in “White  Palace” (1990, based on a 1987 novel).

Sarandon also starred in “The Hunger” (1983), along with David Bowie
and Catherine Deneuve (above).

Two items from November 24, 2015 —

Related material —

 David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve star in "The Hunger" (1983).

Vampira and Loki at Cannes

"Now we're partners in crime" — Ace of Base, "The Golden Ratio"

Or not.

"The Hunger" (1983) was directed by Tony Scott.

See also Tony Scott in this journal.

For The Hunger Games

Spoiler Alert

For readers unfamilar either with the film "Point of No Return"
or with the "Raven's Progressive Matrices" intelligence test,
here is a spoiler alert. This post links to details of both.

Backstory— The above film and Raven in this journal

Part I:      Problem b in this intelligence test

Part II:    Take Your Pick in this journal (Dec. 16, 2011)

Part III:   Pick

The title is from a column by Stanley Fish
on The Hunger Games  books in today's
online New York Times . The column
was posted at 9 PM EDT on May 7th, but I
did not see it until this morning.

Fish says—

"In the end… [spoiler details omitted]…
children… 'don’t know they play
on a graveyard'…."

For some literary background, see last night's post
on the May 7th, 2012, NY Times  obituaries as well
as the May 7th, 2006, Log24 post featuring 24 squares
arranged in a rectangular frame.

See also Frame Tales and, more generally,
The King and the Corpse.

"Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera." — Yul Brynner