Epic 'Les Misérables' runs out of steam

Caption Anne Hathaway poses at the'Les Miserables' New York premiere at Ziegfeld Theatre on December 10, 2012 in New York CityThere has been much talk about Anne Hathaway's weight loss to play the prostitute Fantine in “Les Miserables,” including

“Les Miserables” should have feminists like me up in arms. The musical takes the female characters from a 150-year-old novel about a French rebellion and makes them bit players — even though they figure prominently in the book (and in the marketing

Anne Hathaway has received some of the best reviews of her career for "Les Miserables," just not necessarily from herself. In Tom Hooper's new film, Hathaway stars as Fantine, a doomed single mother-turned-prostitute who

/news/les-miserables-bows-at-no-1-on-soundtracks-1008062642.story. 'Les Miserables' Bows at No. 1 on Soundtracks Chart. It's "Les Miserables" mania on the Billboard charts this week. "Les Miserables: Highlights From the Motion Picture Soundtrack"

It's no surprise that “Les Misérables” can still hold an audience. Hugo believed in, relished, luxuriated in, contradiction—he thought that we show ourselves most truly when we are seemingly most opposed to our double