A novelist (Rafe Spall) is promised a story that would make him believe in God at the beginning of “Life of Pi.”

The writer was told by a friend to visit a man named Pi whose life story is so unbelievable the writer must hear it from the man himself. Pi, played as an older man by Irrfan Khan, takes the writer into his home and accepts the challenge. He agrees to tell the tragic but beautiful story of his life.

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The film, adapted from the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, begins with the older Pi and the writer sitting together and then flashes back to Pi’s younger days. Growing up, Pi (Suraj Sharma) lived with his family in India, where his parents owned and operated a local zoo. WhenIf I were Jayson Blair, Id have a real hard time finding
a reason to live right now.

If another journalist uttered this line, the assessment might smack of
moral indignation, sprinkled with a dose of the Schadenfreude evident
in much of the proselytizing about the tawdry affair. But out of the mouth
of Foster Winans, it sounds like the insight of a man who has walked in
Blairs shoes.

In the past few weeks, the 27-year-old Blair went from young, ambitious
New York Times reporter to the troubled man whose catalog
of errors, plagiarism and outright fiction delivered the Gray Lady her
biggest shiner in her 107 years in the Sulzberger family. Nineteen years
ago, Winans delivered a similar blow to the Wall Street Journal
after it was revealed that he and a small cabal were illegally profiting
by trading