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...world oil prices even further. And the anti-American rage that has swept the Arab world in response to the Israeli-Palestinian violence makes it even harder for Washington to consider any punitive action against Baghdad, giving Saddam plenty of within which to challenge the U.S. and Britain. The Butcher of Baghdad appears to have seen off the Bush and Clinton administrations. Now he may be planning a few nasty surprises for the next occupant of the Oval Office...
...actors and producers expertly impaled on Frank Rich's pen during his 1980-93 run as "the Butcher of Broadway" (a.k.a. the drama critic for the New York Times), there are, in his new memoir, a couple of bombshells: Rich has a heart, and that heart loves the theater passionately and needily. Ghost Light (Random House; 311 pages; $24.95) is really two memoirs. The first is about--surprise!--a troubled childhood. The second is a tender reminiscence of the American theater of the '50s and '60s. Where Ghost Light often excels is where the two meet: the critic's evolving...
...stay and be his father." Ghost Light ends as Rich leaves home for college, but in this eloquent book, we already see him becoming a critic and art lover in the truest, deepest sense. In the process, he teaches us that you can't be a good butcher without loving the cooking...
Though its premise is original, the abundance of stereotypes means that Just Looking can't be a truly significant film. You can't help notice each new cliche, from the pin-up of Hedy as a lingerie model to the kosher butcher Mark, a throw-back to Fiddler on the Roof's Lazar Wolf...
...What did interest me, however, was LP number 5: "The Phil Spector Wall of Sound Vol. 5: Rare Masters." To an obsessive, of course, the words "rare master" are Pavlovian triggers like "never released", "obscure B-side" and "the Beatles butcher-cover." That it turned out to be a great record was irrelevant - I had no choice. I was Ahab, the white whale was off the starboard. Somehow I got the money (probably around six or seven dollars) and "Rare Masters" was in my hands...