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...best novel of 1983." "Congratulations. Ironweed has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize." Callers from the West Coast snatched up the film rights to earlier novels, Legs and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. Francis Ford Coppola hired the author to write the script for his $45 million movie The Cotton Club; and the public library of Albany, New York State's capital and the author's home town, proclaimed a William Kennedy Day to honor its first native literary star since Bret Harte...
...fascination with country is not all martial, however. A Sally Field movie due out this week, Places in the Heart, is a highly sentimental, richly American story: a Texas widow during the Depression takes up cotton farming to keep her homestead and family together. Blue Highways, the bestselling account of a 13,000-mile trip down back roads, made a reassuring case that the American fabric still looks like a charming country quilt. American architecture has been pursuing a rather whimsical rediscovery of its home-grown past: flimsy roadside commercial buildings are regarded as significant folk design, for instance...
...that the end of this picture's celebration of the traditional American verities. Struggling on against the ravages of the Great Depression, the elements (a devastating tornado) and the wickedness of the unenlightened (a hypocritical banker, a crooked cotton merchant, even the Ku Klux Klan), Edna is comforted and aided by her two utterly winning children (Yankton Hatten and Gennie James), by a shrewd, gentle, black man (Danny Glover) whom she redeems from rootlessness and petty crime, and by a blind man (John Malkovich) whom she redeems from bitterness. As these archetypes of disenfranchisement assemble in her kitchen...
...that never wanders toward pure realism or toward sentimentality either, that Places in the Heart derives much of its strength. The dust rising from the wheels of a hurrying flivver, the chilly darkness of a cavernous bank, the way the early morning sun strikes a field of cotton, and the camera's simple crane up to reveal the immensity of the field and of the task before the little band of pickers toiling in it are palpable. Ultimately, it is the play of light more than the play of actors and of words that imparts to movies like this...
...peach. They are cut to accentuate the lines of the body, but they eschew the pointy lapels and extra pockets of more extreme European designs. As a result, the suits do not look out of place at an executive board meeting. Made of top-quality wool, silk, linen and cotton from Italy, Boss suits cost from $200 to $300 in Europe and $400 to $500 in the U.S. They typically run about $100 less than suits made by such leading European designers as Armani and Valentino...