Word: adler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entertainment that she conceived-in classic show-business fashion, over lunch at the Russian Tea Room with Hamlisch and Lyricist Christopher Adler-has a spritz of autobiography, a soupçon of her movie roles, a dusting of philosophy and a big dollop of dancing. Virtually every word of dialogue MacLaine speaks is about herself, and that is just as she intends it: "Philosophically, celebrating myself is what I am into." Apart from her one-liners, there is one highly effective if overlong joke: she sings a Harold Arlen medley while the conductor and orchestra, supposedly influenced by the ghosts...
...Killed the Robins Family?, Adler and Chastain...
...Killed the Robins Family?, Adler and Chastain...
Such is the problem confronting Lauren Adler, a savvy first-semester freshman from New Jersey and the heroine of Victoria Silver's latest addition to the genre of Harvard fiction. Before one fateful Wednesday in November, the most serious question that plagues Lauren during her Russian Revolution seminar is which of its 11 students is the most attractive. But then Russel Bernard, the star of both the seminar and Lauren's personal musings, is murdered and his body thrown into the Charles, in a manner that bizarrely recalls the murder of Rasputin discussed in her last seminar meeting...
...Killed the Robins Family?, Adler and Chastain...