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These days, however, he believes that he overcommitted himself to The Godfather and feels his neglect of Third Wife Ali MacGraw (the others: Actresses Sharon Hugueny and Camilla Sparv) led to the collapse of their marriage. He still talks obsessively about Ali to anyone who will listen. Since her departure, he rattles noiselessly around the house among his housekeeper, chef, tennis court, swimming pool, screening room and 32 telephones. He sometimes shuts them off when his and Ali's son Joshua comes to stay. Evans' back is slightly better since he found a Chinese acupuncturist in Paris...
...needs is not zwieback but a drink. There is no shortage of wry, clever novels by and about overwrought young mothers. And initially this unassuming first novel by Johanna Davis seems to be a fairly conventional example of obstetrical fiction. Its heroine, a likable, gifted young Manhattan woman named Camilla Ryder, is dismayed during her second pregnancy to discover that her mind has gone womby. She hears voices, sees things that aren't there, frightens her husband with screams in the night, gobbles uppers given to her by a dippy friend and downers prescribed by her disastrous psychiatrist...
Familiar, pleasant stuff. Yet what is remarkable is not that the thing is done, but that it is done so well. Writing from the viewpoint of an out-of-control character, Author Davis unobtrusively maintains order in her novel, limiting her scope sharply to Camilla's indrawn and pill-whacked consciousness...
...high on pot, is shown "examining his fingers as if they had just arrived in the mail, and did not fit the catalogue description." But the author usually has the steadiness to know when enough-already is enough. The only serious objection to her portrait is that she characterizes Camilla as an honors graduate in English, and then has the girl refer to "the passive tense." Tense is what psycho-maternity patients are, and voice is what passive is. A healthy, full-term first little novel anyway...
Died. Fernandel, 67, elastic-featured French comedian who mugged his way to international cinema fame in The Little World of Don Camilla (1951); of cancer; in Paris. His real name was Fernand Contandin, but he preferred "just one name. Like Napoleon." He won an amateur singing contest in 1928, eleven years later was voted the most popular screen personality in France. His lantern jaw and Grand Canyon grin once prompted Actor Sacha Guitry to inquire with impeccable Gallic politeness: "Has anyone ever told you, monsieur-how odd-that you look like a horse...