Oppenheimer - played by actor Cillian Murphy in the biopic - also regarded Ryder as a rare person who had "a tragic sense of life, in that ... youth", alluding to his early association with ...

Early readers reacted in horror and in ... was a “lively but harrowing biography.” In Ms. Oppenheimer’s telling, he wrote, “right to the end, the story of Shirley Jackson’s life retains ...

Oppenheimer’s academic brilliance became a flimsy shield against the antisemitism that orbited his life. He entered Harvard ... his key Jewish resume point early on in the film.

The film, directed by British filmmaker Christopher Nolan, follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the U.S. physicist who led the Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first ...

He added: "Playing Oppenheimer from his early 20s to late 50s, the 47-year-old Murphy gives the performance of his life, imbuing Oppenheimer's body with an enthralling nervous eroticism and his ...