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...that has something wrong with it. Tightly made in its parts, the book sags as a whole. Dunne, a journalist and, with Wife Joan Didion, writer of such filmscripts as A Star Is Born and True Confessions, seems to have put his notebooks, filing cabinet and even his sock drawer to good use. His descriptions of courtrooms and Hollywood living rooms suggest nimble legwork and a fine ear. Agent to agent: "You can say what you want about communism, but those boys know how to structure a deal." A caterer on the subject of specialty bar mitzvahs: " 'Mr. Wonderful...
Because every time during the next few months when it snows or freezes, all I have to do is open my desk drawer and see those nine tickets sitting there and I'm fine...
...illustrate his explanation of his project in the Italian highlands, he pulled a full-color map out from a drawer to pinpoint particular locations. Togive a more concrete sense of what the smallItalian village he lived in looked like, he showedphotographs and postcards of the area, of hisfriends and the farmhouse in which he lived...
Purcell's debut feature comes out of the bottom of Beth Henley's script drawer. The author of Crimes of the Heart and (in collaboration) True Stories has down-home flakes down pat, but here they are too pat. Meet -- as if you hadn't met them in Southern literature a hundred times before -- the irrepressible outcast (Rosanna Arquette), the sensitive wanderer (Eric Roberts) in search of Miz Right, the good-ole-girl barmaid (Mare Winningham), the ex-jock with itchy trousers (Jim Youngs). In her eye blink of a role, Winningham is a buoyant delight, and Youngs nicely fleshes...
...transformation protects others--WASPs, white ethnics, Jews, Asians, whomever--from having to reevaluate their images of Black people. If a sales clerk or undercover security guard has a mental picture of all Blacks as disreputable ghetto dwellers, then the presence of a petty bourgeois, upper-middle class, or top drawer Black person threatens his world view and, in a fashion, his own sense of security...