Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that pleasure as ripely as any film made by New Yorkers in Texas since Bonnie and Clyde. A lip-sync contest, to the Talking Heads' bar-brawl rave-up Wild Wild Life, is awhirl with amateur energy. For 15 seconds or so each, a dozen locals -- Louis the Country Bachelor (John Goodman), his pal Ramon (Tito Larriva) and even Byrne in a gigolo's mustache, but also a little girl, a fat woman, a Prince look-alike and his votary (played by Fellow Heads Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth) -- get to put on the hit, and each does so with...
...plot is easy to summarize, although not for the person who tells it. He is Phillip Carver, 49, a bachelor who learns from his two older sisters in Memphis that their father, 81 and a widower, is planning to remarry. Phillip believes he has long since escaped Memphis and old associations; he works for a publishing house in Manhattan and collects rare books. But his live-in girlfriend Holly has just moved out on him, and he is lonely and therefore vulnerable to appeals from the past. There is also the matter of his father's "not inconsiderable fortune...
Geller, a 66-year-old bachelor, doesn't have what you might think of as a radio personality. He isn't just taciturn but a misanthrope and the dead opposite of a local booster. He calls Gloucester "the end of the world" and says he would rather have caught on in New York City. In Gloucester, he says, there is nothing to do but work or have sex. "I don't have a sex partner," he adds gloomily, "so I work...
...Trinity Collegerather than in off-campus housing. He opted tostudy anthropology and archaelogy, switching in ayear to history. When the Prince was not engagedin royal duties or his studies, he found time toact and play polo, eventually getting Universitycolors, half-blue, for that sport. In 1970, thePrince earned a Bachelor of Arts in History...
...shadow that falls in Here Lies has little to do with Ambler's private life or his two marriages--he might have been a lifelong bachelor for all the discussion of his domestic affairs. It concerns his screen credits. In the front of this truncated autobiography, 18 novels are listed, along with 16 screenplays. From The Mask of Dimitrios and Journey into Fear to Dirty Story and The Levanter, the books form a distinguished line. Most of the films are extremely forgettable, and so are the adaptations of his work. But Ambler remembers them: "The Mask of Dimitrios had been...