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...movie script improves on the novelette in two basic ways: by what's added (the whipcrack pungency of Odets' dialogue) and what's missing. Sidney no longer has a souring affair with J.J.'s secretary. (The boy is all ego, not libido; he's too busy screwing his clients to waste time screwing a secretary.) Also gone are the interior monologues, and good riddance; Sidney has no soul to confide to us. But he has a handsome line of patter - a slick pitch (most likely a spitter) for shoddy merchandise. He stops you on the street, talks fast, and suddenly...
Wetlaufer is widely considered a talented editor who successfully oversaw HBR's transformation from a bimonthly to a monthly. But her staff was upset that she waited almost a month after the affair with Welch began before facing up to the potential conflict of interest--and even then acted largely at the urging of someone outside the magazine. That someone was Jane Welch, 49, Jack's wife, who reportedly knew about the affair and called Wetlaufer to question whether the editor could be neutral in her article...
Jane seemed more concerned with journalistic ethics than did Wetlaufer's colleagues, several of whom had known of the affair since it began last November, after Wetlaufer and Welch met for lunch at the clubby Manhattan restaurant "21." The meal was set up so the pair could be together for a photograph to run with Wetlaufer's Letter from the Editor. They reportedly had their first date that night...
...Katshuhiro (Tanabe Seiichi) is a brooding engineer who's gay, gets hit on by women, but tries to keep his secret hidden. That is until he meets Naoya (Takahashi Kazuya), a self-centered gay man, and the two of them start a love affair. Into their lives comes Asako (Kataoka Reiko), a surly twentysomething who has been on more laps than a restaurant napkin, and who takes a shine to Katshuhiro. In him she sees a man with "a father's eyes" and suggests they conceive a child by artificial means, to Naoya's initial displeasure. Between bouts of bowling...
Playing about a decade under her true age (37), Tomei is Natalie, a warmhearted, lower-class single mom who has made two mistakes: marrying an angry rich boy (William Mapother) and then, while separated, taking up with Frank. Theirs is a true love. But the affair crosses class lines. His mother worries openly about it; if the kid persists, he could end up a lobsterman instead of the architect he wants to be. Matt indulges his son; he thinks this is just a phase. Who's right, we'll never know. For Frank is killed. So, more or less...