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...original headline of the Dec. 1 news article "Deol’s Film On Oscar Shortlist" incorrectly spelled the last name of the filmmaker. Her last name is Deol not Doel...
...Charing Cross Road, which played the West End and Broadway a few years ago, began as Helene Hanff's 1970 memoir of her 20-year mail-order affair with the London bookseller Marks & Co. Hanff, an aspiring Manhattan writer, never met Frank Doel, the antiquarian across the sea, yet their business correspondence about old books gradually took on the intimacy of love letters about literature. She described, with chatty eloquence, her sensuous safari through the world of words; he tracked down her requests with a consort's fond diligence...
Like Frank Doel, Stephanie Anderson in Duet for One has the plucky, soldiering-on English temperament. Beneath it, however, is a violin virtuoso's rage at being felled by multiple sclerosis. The role, played on Broadway by Bancroft, now extracts one of Julie Andrews' strongest performances. Fighting the disease and its accompanying despair, stoking her own infidelity and her husband's, displaying the terminal patient's luxury of being both noble and bitter, Andrews transforms Tom Kempinski's case history into a metaphor for middle age. Stephanie could be any careerist facing a mid-life crisis of confidence...
Hanff (Ellen Burstyn) is trying to gain an education by reading the great works, and Frank Doel, the bookstore's chief salesman (Joseph Maher), is the man who finds them for her. A relationship of sorts develops. Britain is still suffering from postwar rationing, and she sends packages of food, which are shared by the other four employees. Some of them also join in the correspondence, telling about their lives and their families, and Hanff chats them up from her 95th Street apartment...
Whatever happened, one night of it persuaded Alfredo Ortiz, 18, and Carlos Ortiz, 17, to sign confessions. Doel Valencia, 19, repudiated his statement in the morning. The actual killing, the confessions said, was done by Angel Walker. But Angel, a one-armed ex-boxer, was too smart to talk. A grand jury found insufficient evidence to indict him. The others spent five months in jail before their day in court. Author
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