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...real downside is having to talk to Ed Begley Jr. about...
...Need a new plot? Deadline-U.S.A. has a small case of the treacles, but it's stirring nonetheless -- and something to think about in this tabloid age. Bogart, additionally, is reason enough to watch. Spot Mr. Howell and Ed Begley Jr.'s father, and you get a gold star. Try The Paper (1994), co-penned (and cameoed in) by current TIME editor Stephen Koepp, if you've got to see something post-war, but please, please don't rent I Love Trouble, unless you really do. Because CP will find out where you live...
...trustees helped to boost the organization's finances by soliciting contributions from alumni at a posh New York cocktail party. The event was attended by the likes of Robert Bly '50, Louis Begley '54, Norman K. Mailer '43, Conan C. O'Brien '85 and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38; alumni gave $50,000 to the Advocate...
...Louis Begley's About Schmidt (Knopf; 274 pages; $23) peels back a layer or two of this weekend world, where the old gentry and gregarious newcomers have little in common except tax brackets. Begley is himself a New York City lawyer turned writer who has fictionalized delicate matters of class and ethnicity before. For instance, his earlier novel The Man Who Was Late (1992) is about a New York City lawyer who, as a Jew, always feels somewhat on the outside in his white-shoe firm...
Elements of social satire outweigh any serious intent Begley might have to air the subject of genteel anti-Semitism. Schmidt, like most people, has an active Them-and-Us reflex, and his real biases are generational. He grouses dolefully about the slide in professional standards, the decline of civility and the thoughtlessness of youth. In what could be called a novel of bad manners, Begley again demonstrates that he can reveal the complexities of society and personality with a clear eye and graceful style. Schmidt may not live up to today's strict standards of political correctness, but he more...