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Even Gertrude Lawrence, one of his greatest friends and favorite acting partners during the '20s and '30s, receives a small jab from the Coward scalpel. When she vacillates about accepting a part, he directs her husband "to tell Gertie to mind her manners and that if she wants...
For many small farming communities the ripple effect is wrenching. In Melbourne, Iowa (pop. 500), a 100-year-old town halfway between Chicago and Omaha, the brick fronts on Main Street were dog-eared before the current recession. But the pervasive gloom is something new. "Our vital signs are not...
Veronika Voss (Rosel Zech) wants her substance and style to be Golden Age Hollywood. Like Sybille Schmitz, the German actress on whose life and perplexing death the film is based, Veronika is an aging movie star on the way down and out. For Veronika, the '40s were all beautiful...
"Now I'm halfway through this non-fiction book trying to describe the ambiguous experiences of solitude. On the one hand, it's seen as a punishment, in the sense that you've failed to establish relationships with other people. On the other side, solitude is a...
Recognizing this, the Rochbergs extracted the China Aster episode as the centerpiece of their opera. China's story, related by one of the novel's characters as a cautionary tale, is onedimensional: pressed by a friend to take a $1,000 loan, China, a candlemaker, invests it unwisely...