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...long and healthy life. On three childhood birthdays she also visited Shinto shrines, clapping her hands and clanging bells to awaken the gods so she could pray to them. In 1980 Keiko used Buddhist omens to select a propitious wedding day. But she exchanged Christian vows with her fiancé in a small chapel at one of Tokyo's elegant hotels. Keiko, now 26 and a mother, expects that some day her ashes will be interred in a Buddhist cemetery, where her descendants will annually return with a Buddhist priest to pray in her honor...
...they think but on who they are." The accident files that Kafka used by day become A Report to an Academy: "You have done me the honor of inviting me to give an account of the life I formerly led as an Ape." His relations with Felice Bauer, the fiancée he never married, are duly noted in his diary: "I am guilty of the wrong for which she is being tortured, and am in addition the torturer." It is but a step from that summary to The Judgment, which ends in the fiance's shame-filled suicide...
...first feature. He has given Williams his best chance to vent his singular, hysterical style in a movie and provided Matthau, stooped and shuffling under the burden of his sanity, with his richest part in years. The film's moral is spoken by Donald's fiancée. Eyeing the arsenal that Donald thinks he needs to walk tall, she protests, "I don't believe in surviving. I believe in living." People who agree with her should see The Survivors in order to contemplate the alternative, hilariously well stated...
...press is not new. In 1849 Queen Victoria's consort Prince Albert went to court to forestall publication of sketches drawn by himself and his wife. The last use was in May 1981 to prohibit distribution of alleged transcripts of telephone conversations between Prince Charles and his then fiancée Lady Diana. But last week marked the first time the royal family has sued a newspaper for punitive damages...
Chuck Lumley (Henry Winkler) is a human fire hydrant for the mad dogs of Manhattan. Delivery boys smear mustard on his door jamb. Sex with his fiancée, a compulsive eater, is a quick kiss between bites of Mallomars. And his new partner on the night shift at the city morgue. Bill Blazejowski (Michael Keaton), is trouble: a pin wheel of sputtering ideas, a motormouth that roared. Out of desperation and a growing fondness for the girl next door (Shelley Long), Chuck devises a scheme that will make them all rich: he and Billy will act as "business agents...