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Even before publication, Robert Daley's satirical roman à clef about a Great New York Newspaper set off much who's-who gossip in the city room of a Great New York Newspaper. Who, for example, is Paul Pettibon, the Paris bureau chief with the ego of a De Gaulle and a sense of insecurity to rival that of Charlie Brown's pal Linus? Who is Jack L. Banglehorster, the slow-moving, ruminative foreign editor who feels that his first duty is "to report the same news the opposition papers reported...
...irresistible bohemian painter who lures an upright schoolmaster (Richard Burton) away from his loyal blonde wife. When Star Burton first read the script, he remarked that "it hits pretty close to home." Director Vincente Minnelli exploits this possibility with unctuous professionalism, fielding his glamorous duo in a romance à clef that they appear to take seriously...
...that were flung at her during her prime. Periodically, she issued books, all of them painstakingly analytical and exhaustingly long. The Second Sex, a dizzy blend of pedagogy, logic, emotion, prejudice and just plain talk about woman's discontented estate, became a classic. The Mandarins, her roman á clef of life with Sartre, Camus and their intellectual confraternity, was a bestseller on both sides of the ocean despite mixed reviews; one New York critic charged that "nothing in the book but the names of the characters appears to derive from her imagination...
...page 129 of his titillating roman a clef, Comparative Animal Physiology, Professor C. Ladd Prosser writes...
...PLACE, by William Brammer. Those who wonder if the energies of our ear-pulling President have been exaggerated in the press should turn to this roman a clef about Johnson. Ex-Aide Brammer has caught the voice, the idiom, the excesses, but most of all the protean vigor of the President...