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...subject: whom to cast in Ragtime, the film based on the 1975 E.L. Doctorow bestseller. "How about you, James?" said the movie's director, Milos Forman, to the owner of the 800-acre New York cattle farm near Forman's place in Warren, Conn. "Well," replied the farmer after considerable reflection, "let's do it." And so, 20 years after his "final" screen appearance in One, Two, Three, James Cagney, 81, was back before the cameras last week in Brooklyn, looking spry in the turn-of-the-century waxed mustache and muttonchops of New York City Police...
...these parts--Narizzano's smooth camerawork, Cort's lurching educator, Eggar's rough-hewn farmer's wife, and the dozen kids who make up Max Brown's class--is a satisfying whole, not unlike My Brilliant Career. The settings are different, of course, and the heroine in search of a career is now a hero, but the tone of each film is the same: gritty, vivacious, and indomitable...
...Georgia, state agricultural experts calculated that the total crop loss thus far is about $450 million. Corn, which does not pollinate in triple-digit heat, is hardest hit; but soybeans, hay, fruits and vegetables, tobacco and peanuts are also being badly damaged. Marshall Spray, an Augusta game-bird farmer, has lost more than 25,000 quail since the onset of the heat wave. Said he: "If somebody doesn't help me, I'm out of business...
FICTION: Consenting Adults or the Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ∙ Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙ Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ∙ The Magic Labyrinth, Philip José Farmer ∙ The Second Coming, Walker Percy ∙ The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard
...certainly of the first rank. And if his prodigious saga falters, it is only after four volumes, when the journey has already provided a library's worth of merriment and insight. "In skating over thin ice," wrote Emerson, "our safety is in our speed." Until the final stretch, Farmer's velocity is breathtaking. -Peter Stoler