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...long, complex novel of politics, society and class. Open to most literary influences and rarely shy about blending them, Latin American authors frequently give the impression that they are catering a novel rather than composing one. There are exceptions. Argentina's Jorges Luis Borges, for example, builds exquisite doll houses from bits of literary history, fantasy and skeptical philosophy. He has become, not surprisingly, one of the major influences on contemporary U.S. fiction. But the Latin appetite for the big bite has in recent years produced one unquestionable masterpiece: in One Hundred Years of Solitude, Colombia's Gabriel...
Linda Ronstadt: Heart Like a Wheel (Capitol). Ron stadt sheds her foxy Barbie doll image for an assertive straight forward approach that displays her vocal diversity. Besides Ronstadt's supersmash single You 're No Good, cuts include the title song by the talented Anna McGarrigle, and Paul Anka's It Doesn 't Matter Anymore...
Married. Zsa Zsa Gabor, 55, sometime actress and talk-show queen; and Jack Ryan, 48, Los Angeles millionaire who, as head of Mattel Inc.'s research division, supervised the development of the Barbie doll. The couple were wed in a civil ceremony at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas; he for the second time, she for the sixth. Said the white-gowned Mrs. Ryan: "If this doesn't work, I shoot myself...
Rome is not known for a shortage of scantily clad prostitutes. Most of the girls are all remarkably handsome, but one slinky, dark-eyed ragazzaccia in garters and black hose was a real bam-bola (doll). It was Sophia Loren, just turned 40, who had strayed away from the camera crew for her new movie Gun Moll, in which she plays a former whore. Neorealism proved too much for one passing truck driver. He leaned out of his truck crying "Che bona!" and made Sophia an offer. Rebuffed, he sadly muttered: "Peccato! That one was stacked just like Sophia Loren...
Only drama stands out as an exception to the general trend. Certainly there have been films that deal with women-- Rachel, Rachel, Persona and Cries and Whispers come to mind--and on Broadway, Doll's House and The Women were recently revived. But good female roles remain scarce and plays that deal with friendships between women are nonexistent. In contrast, male-male relationships have been glorified in over a dozen movies and plays in just the last five years...