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...Lewis (Atria; October), giving it a starred review. "In lyrical, honest language, a painter describes her adolescence in a New York psychiatric hospital. In 1967, 15-year-old Lewis was remanded to a psychiatric facility following charges of drug use and school truancies. She remained there until her 18th birthday. Her first person, present-tense narrative describes her life with other adolescents deemed 'unmanageable'....Complex, chilling, luminous: not one false step...
...players in The Touch are clearly giving it their all. Chaplin and Roxburgh, the film's principal Western actors, could have treated the movie as a catered summer trip to China. Instead, the genial Chaplin, a British actor who made his mark in indie films like The Birthday Party, puts up with being frozen, burned, beaten, insulted and generally treated with all the respect of a Chinese migrant worker. Roxburgh, with a sneer on his lips and murder in his dark, campy heart, all but steals the film. Yeoh's role as coproducer explains why her hair is windswept...
Rumors are rampant that for her 32nd birthday, JENNIFER LOPEZ got BEN AFFLECK. Representatives of the stars have not confirmed the romance, but Affleck reportedly gave Lopez a diamond bracelet last week. The next day she filed for divorce from dancer Cris Judd (the two separated months ago). An early romantic harbinger was an affectionate ad Affleck took out in The Hollywood Reporter congratulating her on a ShoWest award. He praised her "astonishing talent, real poise and true grace" and concluded, "I only wish I were lucky enough to be in all your movies." And they call P. Diddy...
...magazine writer who moonlights with plays and film scripts. His Hitler play opens tonight. His movie is being shot right now with movie star Francesca (Julia Roberts) and rising TV actor Calvin (Blair Underwood). The film's producer, Gus (David Duchovny), turns 40 today and is expected at a birthday party a few hours after he gets a massage from Lee's sister Linda (Mary McCormack). Everyone collides, sexually or emotionally, with everyone else. Collides and contuses. You can see the welts, or rather hear them, in the dialogue by poet-playwright Coleman Hough (a real find); it laces endearments...
...them, the greatest luxury of retirement is returning to work--on their own terms. Robert Pamplin, 76, former head of the Georgia-Pacific Corp., prudently began plotting his corporate afterlife 10 years before he reached his company's mandatory retirement age. In 1976, on his 65th birthday, he bought a small sand-and-gravel company. Ten years and two other acquisitions later, he oversees a small empire with revenues of $420 million. Pamplin saw his postretirement course as a sort of duty. "God has given us certain talents," he says. "And he gave them to us to use." --TIME...