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...fourth book Robert Ward has attempted to update a half-forgotten relic of the '30s: the proletarian novel, with its idealized workers and smokestack suburbs. Ward's contemporary laborers are not moved by Woody Guthrie's lyrics; they rock to Mick Jagger and Aretha Franklin. They are not Dead End slum dwellers; they are Viet Nam vets and night-school dropouts. Their collars may be blue, but their lives run in the black: sheepskin jackets and vacations at the beach...
Friendships do not always grow well in the glittery sand of show biz. But Actresses Nastassia Kinski, 22, and Jodie Foster, 20, have become chums despite the glare. After meeting at an Aretha Franklin concert a year and a half ago, Occasional Journalist Foster, a junior at Yale, took up recorder and notebook for a Q. and A. dialogue with Kinski that ran, seemingly forever, in Interview magazine. They are reunited for the film adaptation of John Irving's Hotel New Hampshire, and the friendship continues. Luckily. The script calls for Kinski-who in the film spends the better...
...thinks he doesn't love his wife. He knows he doesn't know his daughter. He wants to find his identity again. So he dumps his woman, takes his kid and heads for the Mediterranean homeland of his fathers. Along the way, he picks up an oversized wanderer named Aretha (Susan Sarandon) whose greatest claim is her ability to sing Jewish folk songs in both Hebrew and Greek. By the end of his 18-month trek, and Mazursky's film. Phillip seemingly reclaims himself. Alas, he does so by means unrevealed to the movie's audience, who watch him sitting...
...BEST in its simplest moments. Cinematographer Don McAlpine's opening shots of the stark geography of Phillip's island do more than just stir a feeling of wonder--they wrench it from deep down inside, ably abetted by Stomu Yamashita's eerie, haunting score, Miranda (Molly Ringwald) and Aretha provide welcome lightness with their a capella renditions of the pop tune. "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?," a protest of the harsh conditions of their voluntary captivity. As the island's actual inhabitant. Raul Julia as Kalibanos is a nearly perfect primitive, adoring his goats and his Sony Trinitarian...
Keyboard Player Brian O'Neal, 24, and his bassist brother Kevin, 19, who wrote Minimum Wage's eleven songs and swap most of the lead vocals, share a gift for flipping stereotypes into comic contortions. Kevin's Respect is part Rodney Dangerfield, part Aretha Franklin. Brian's Johnny Soul'd Out is a black man's declaration of independence to make the kind of music he wants, not what is expected of him ("Johnny soul'd out . . ./ He's into rock 'n' roll and he's given...