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...actor is perfect for any role. A woman can play Hamlet (Sarah Bernhardt); a black man can play Shakespeare (Morgan Freeman as Petruchio, Denzel Washington as Richard III in Joseph Papp's Shakespeare series in New York City's Central Park). Some call it inspired casting. Others, like producer Dominick Balletta of the Pan Asian Repertory Theater, call it affirmative action. "Nontraditional casting was meant to create opportunities for actors of color," he says, "not to take jobs away from them...
...Think of Clifton Webb at age 40," says Dominick Dunne, speaking of a gentleman bitch in his latest roman a clef, An Inconvenient Woman (Crown; 458 pages; $19.95). And why not? Everyone else in the novel seems to have stepped directly from a '40s feature: plutocrat Jules Mendelson; his socialite wife Pauline; his long-suffering mistress Flo March; and a sexually ambiguous friend, the late Hector Paradiso. Hector's violent death was marked as suicide, but Mendelson knows who shot him and why. The cover-up is reminiscent of an actual Los Angeles scandal; the malicious dialogue and the insider...
PEOPLE LIKE US (NBC, May 13, 14, 9 p.m. EDT). A journalist (Ben Gazzara) seeks to avenge the murder of his daughter in a two-part movie based on Dominick Dunne's best seller...
...ASPERN PAPERS (PBS, June 9, 9 p.m. on most stations). First time on TV for Dominick Argento's opera based on the Henry James novella, in a production from the Dallas Opera...
...prize the top spot at American ! Vogue or perhaps even Liberman's post as editorial director. Brown's long-term interests, on the other hand, seem to lie outside fashion journalism. "She has a fascination for Hollywood that has not begun to be exhausted," says Vanity Fair Contributor Dominick Dunne. For now, however, both women claim that it is challenge enough to run their shops efficiently and try to make it home to their children by dinnertime...