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...peace will triumph. In his Tel Aviv office Friday morning, the 78-year-old Foreign Minister rubbed his lined face tiredly and hunched over a cup of strong, bitter black coffee that Israelis call botz, or mud. On the shelf behind his chair stood the parchment certifying his award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994. Peres still yearns to live up to that legacy, but it's not easy. "It's been a hell of a week," he sighs...
...BLACK AND BLUE: Kirkus sheds a tear over "West of Rehoboth" by Alexs Pate (Morrow/HarperCollins; September 7), giving it a starred review. "A profoundly affecting story about a bright black kid?s first brushes with bigotry, in a fifth novel from the award- winning author of ?The Multicultiboho Show.? It?s 1962, early July, in sizzling, smoldering North Philly - no place for a 12-year-old African-American who happens to prefer Agatha Christie to street fighting. Every summer Edward Massey?s working-class parents, fiercely protective, hustle him out of town and down to Rehoboth Beach, where his Aunt...
...Broadway actress, most admired for portraying a dizzying range of characters--a tomboy kid sister in William Inge's Picnic (1953), a nightclub chanteuse in Bus Stop (1955)--with notable humor and pathos; in Santa Fe, N.M. Stanley also made a few scattered but striking film appearances, earning Academy Award nominations for her roles as a deranged psychic in Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) and the tyrannical mother in Frances...
...That's a statement of principle?and a plug for his most lauded crime film. The Mission, which earned To last year's Hong Kong Film Award as best director, convened five gunmen as bodyguards for a powerful boss. Swift, spare and violent, with bullet ballets staged in deserted malls, the film played like The Seven Samurai (minus two) in Alphaville. It was another To essay on a man's dedication to the work ethic, no matter what line of work he's in. For cine-philes everywhere, The Mission offered proof that the Heroic Bloodshed genre had not died...
...also just been published: Love That Dog (HarperCollins), an innovative novel in free verse for kids ages 8 to 12. Creech has been dazzling critics since 1995, when Walk Two Moons, her first children's book to be published in the U.S., won the prestigious Newbery Medal, the Academy Award of children's books. "To win the Newbery Medal on your first book is an astounding feat," says Diane Roback, the children's editor at Publishers Weekly. "She is one of these writers whose subsequent books have very much lived up to the accolades she got on her first book...