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Brooks wrote a fine part for Simmons, now 40, in The Happy Ending. Her Mary Wilson is an unsatisfied woman who leaves her husband of 16 years and finds new interests in Bobby Darin, Lloyd Bridges, alcohol and suicide attempts. It earned her that second Oscar nomination but no good roles in big pictures. Going where the work was, she exiled herself to TV and the stage. She earned an Emmy in the miniseries North and South and played a more worldly-wise Desirée, singing "Send in the Clowns," in the West End edition of Stephen Sondheim...
...every writer ever. But twins aren't symbols; they're people. There are not, to my knowledge, any great identical-twin novelists (though I think John Barth has a twin sister), and I have never yet read a fictional account of twinness that I found convincing, with one exception: Darin Strauss's excellent Chang and Eng, about Barnum & Bailey's famous Siamese twins. As Elspeth tells her lover Robert shortly before she dies, "You haven't got a twin, so you can't know how it is." Too right...
...Running Atlantic Records with Ahmet Ertegun, Jerry Wexler, 91, launched the pop careers of R&B giants Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, made a crossover star of Bobby Darin, kept the Drifters a top act through ever-changing personnel and in the '70s signed the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. Wexler produced Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis LP and Bob Dylan's first Grammy-winning album, the 1979 Slow Train Coming...
...forget that the slim 1% difference between humans and chimps that gave us Mozart, Einstein and Socrates is also responsible for serial killers, totalitarian despots and greasy-palmed politicians. Darin Kourajian Locust Grove, Georgia...
...DARIN KOURAJIAN Locust Grove...