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...discovered and Lippmann decided to marry Helen Armstrong, he persuaded his father-in-law to break the news to his wife of 20 years. He never saw her again. He was touchy all his life about his Jewish origins. He blamed anti-Semitism on the Jews who would not blend quietly and inconspicuously into the Protestant mainstream. He wrote nothing about the Nazi death camps...
...starmaker machinery of the LA/Hollywood music industry. Either way, a healthy thread of the Old is still noticeable in the fabric of this studio slick, neon release: the familiar fibers--sun and stars, heart-and-drum-beat--have been incorporated in what feels at first an itchy, polyester-rich blend to those expecting Browne redux in torn T-shirt and broke-in jeans. And though the traditional elements remain, their combination is not the poetry alternating precision with ambiguity that made Browne's early albums all the more vital for their teenage (year, we got a band together...
...movies resemble Bel Air rummage sales, it seems a precious thing-called directorial integrity. It does not mean that the man behind the camera tithes his salary for Cambodian refugees; it means he knows how to make movies: how to shoot and edit pieces of film so they cohere, blend to create laughter or suspense, speak eloquently in the special language of the cinema. Steven Spielberg, Alan J. Pakula, Martin Scorsese, John Carpenter know the language. So does Australian Director George Miller, whose first feature contains sequences of violent, pure cinema poetry...
...Music aspires to nothing more radical than providing a raucous good time, and not so coincidentally promoting the Village People's new album. (The title song consumes the final eleven minutes of screen time.) It is hard to get angry about this harmless, weightless enterprise, an attempt to blend the spirit of the opulent old MGM musicals with the jackhammer sound of disco. The movie brings a certain chaotic zest to the group's Y.M.C.A., transforming it into a lavender update of a Busby Berkeley danceathon; and Paul Sand performs comic wonders with the role of a manic...
Novelist Thomas, 44, a former staff member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and now a private business consultant, delivers a heady blend of financial expertise, jet-set elegance, cultural sophistication, romance, intrigue, karate chops and plastic explosives. Harrison himself is a rare combination: part Bernard Baruch, part Scaramouche...