Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER by Mario Vargas Llosa Translated by Helen R. Lane; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 374 pages...
...Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, by contrast, works both sides of the equator...
...Aunt Julia is set in that same period of the 1950s, though Odria and his political procurers are not in sight. Instead, Vargas Llosa's Lima is a bright tangle of characters: Indians from the mountains and the edge of the Amazon busy filling up new slums; a middle class trying to keep its balance in an unstable economy; and the rich preserving the good life and marrying off their daughters in style. There are shocks and bizarre surprises, but the prevailing atmosphere of the novel is a melancholy gaiety...
Look quick! That Botticelli Venus is Aunt Marge...
...nine-hour ABC-TV "novel for television" based on Colleen McCullough's 1977 bestseller. Richard Chamberlain, 47, plays Meggie's paramour, Man of the Cloth Ralph de Bricassart. Jean Simmons, 53, has the role of her mother Fee, and Barbara Stanwyck, 74, is cast as her Aunt Mary Carson. Only one major part, that of Meggie's husband Luke, is being played by an Australian, Bryan Brown (Breaker Morant). Brown may have his Down Under accent down pat, but the rest will have to fake it. Rachel, who was raised on an Oxfordshire farm, hopes...