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...selling Condominium, and eighteen other novels that precede this one in his Travis McGee mystery series. His eighteenth Travis McGee, The Green Ripper, won the American Book Award for Best Mystery of 1979. Yet, people seem anxious to write him off as a hyperactive, but fundamentally unsound producer of escapist fiction...
Even in the excited aftermath of Columbia's incredible journey, such schemes have the ring of expensive fantasy. Some people even find them disturbing retreats from the earth's own hard realities, including widespread poverty and hunger. But are they really only escapist dreams? At least one hard-nosed test pilot does not think so. Speaking after his return from space last week, John Young said: "I think we have a remarkable capability here. We're really not too far-the human race isn't far from going to the stars. Bob and I are mighty...
After a brutal heat wave, Billygate, Iran and other insanities, there is nothing so refreshing as a tad of honest lust, greed, incest and vicious moneygrubbing à la Dallas [Aug. 11]. J.R. Ewing has restored my faith in escapist...
...Escapist entertainment is what's doing the business-whatever gets your mind off the Ayatullah." In that brief capsule, Marvin Goldman, chairman of the National Association of Theater Owners, has summed up the mood of the country. During the Christmas and New Year's holidays, always the movies' biggest weeks, Americans went to the flicks primarily for one purpose: fun and diversion. Those films that offered some of both either did well, or even better. Those that did not quickly became the ghosts of Christmas present...
Oklahoma! is nothing if not escapist. The creaky book centers on true love be tween Curly, a bold man, and Laurey (Christine Andreas), a spirited maiden, aided by an earthy matchmaker, Aunt Eller (Mary Wickes). They make it real, even when the dialogue resembles subtitles from a silent movie. As in the silents, there is a villain, Jud, played by Martin Vidnovic, who brings to a thankless role a Freudian depth of characterization and a richly textured voice...