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...mishandled or manipulated, comparing what appeared in the papers and on television with what he considers the objective truth. Not surprisingly, given Epstein's original bias, the press comes off looking a little bit tarnished. His analysis of the Watergate coverage is that "at best, reporters, including Woodward and Bernstein, only leaked elements of the prosecutors' case to the public in advance of the trial." Of the New York Times's version of the Pentagon Papers, he says, "Substantial revisions in the history were made on major points" in order to convert what was in fact a bureaucratic study into...
...Yekl by Abraham Cahan, concerns a small group of transplanted Jews painfully adjusting to the promised city. Yekl (Steven Keats) now calls himself Jake, works in a sweatshop and courts Mamie (Dorrie Kavanaugh, an actress of spirited sensuality). He takes in a boarder, a subdued former Yeshiva student named Bernstein (Mel Howard), and prepares for the coming of his wife Gitl (Carol Kane) and infant son from the old country. Jake is not exhilarated by their arrival. They remind him of an older life now past; more important, he cannot break Mamie's erotic spell...
...Jake's story that the trials and compromises of assimilation are most easily perceived. But Writer-Director Silver gives as much attention to Bernstein and Gitl, even to Mamie, and so loses her central conflict. Most crucially, she is unable to resolve the basic emotional dilemma of Jake's confusion. It cannot simply be the new country and Jake's urgency to be part of it that turns him away from his wife and from tradition. Yet that is all the motivation Silver supplies him. It is just this short sightedness,this emotional skimpiness, that makes Hester...
...extensive collection of Wolfe's papers housed in Houghton, the gift of New Orleans businessman William B. Wisdom, contains a diverse assortment of items, including 1000 post-cards Wolfe collected of European art and historical sites and a number of his works inscribed to Aline Bernstein, his lover and the model for the character Esther who appears in several of his novels...
Teeny-boppers love him. Journalist Marie Brenner describes him as "an utterly charming Irishman who could make you believe just about anything in less than 30 minutes." Composer Elmer Bernstein says: "he possesses a grandeur of vision that is quite staggering." His daughter Teresa, 15, thinks he is "just like a good friend." At first meeting, Tom Laughlin's glittering blue eyes and ready grin make him seem the soul of affability. But beware. The smallest infraction can trip a temper that has become as infamous as Mussolini's. Tom's face grows scarlet, and his voice...