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Emma Thompson has the sense to inquire. Does director Mike Nichols have the sensibility to hire? Word is out that casting for an upcoming screen version of the potboiling political roman a clef Primary Colors may soon begin. Thompson seeks the Hillary Clinton role, while Tom Hanks is angling to play Bill Clinton. Surely there's a role somewhere for Anonymous...
...perfect nails, heavy-duty makeup -- and almost no takers among the lunchtime crowd jamming the Market Place East mall in downtown Philadelphia last Monday. For the half a dozen or so people who buy the book, she signs "Best Wishes," with her initial in the shape of a treble clef on a sheet of music. Frustrated, a little ticked off, she gets up, paces, fidgets with her hair and decides to leave early, sniffing, "There's usually a long line; I don't know what's happening here...
Advance word on The Information was that it was a roman a clef of sorts about Amis' relationship with his friend, the novelist Julian Barnes. But Amis is too subtle for those kinds of games. Looking for the author in the text denies the fact thatThe Information is capable of standing...
That The Information is about literary envy complicates the story. Amis denies that the book is a roman e clef, and indeed, the characters are too over the top for positive identification. Martin Amis, the son of novelist Kingsley Amis, has always been eager to show that he can juggle words better and push satire further than his competition, including Dad. But there are limits, and they are beginning to show...
...been "identified" with other academics--Leslie Fiedler or Harold Bloom or whatever. And it pleases me, because he is a representative type--and Stanley has rather encouraged the likeness, I think. On the whole, I'm very careful not to portray people--I don't write romans a clef, though Small World is often read...