Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, Guinness almost turned the picture down when he saw a science-fiction label on it. He read the first few pages, however, and found himself still turning, a sure sign of a good script. Guinness usually takes more complex roles, like the traitorous diplomat he is playing in Alan Bennett's current London hit, The Old Country. As Hilary, the high official of the Foreign Office who defects to Russia, Guinness plays a man who loves ironies and verbal puzzles. His own character is hidden, even to himself; "Hilary is Hilary watching Hilary watching Hilary," says his wife. Guinness...
Television situation comedy does a pretty good job of airing and disarming class anxieties. Most modern American fiction, on the other hand, remains generally psychological. In contrast, British novels still draw their deepest breaths from society and manners. Wilfrid Sheed, a wily English-born Catholic intellectual, can work both sides of the North Atlantic. Sheed's sharp, entertaining essays and reviews have earned him a reputation as one of America's best literary journalists; he is also a judge for the Book-of-the-Month Club. His previous novels, which include A Middle Class Education, Max Jamison...
...praise junkies, fake humility as an asset, indeed turning anything into an asset. Chatworth even considers publishing his confessional tape to "launch that new career as Mr. Honesty." The novel is a promising departure for Sheed too. It is much looser and more vigorously humorous than his previous fiction. As a parody of personality packaging and what happens when the package is unbundled, Chatworth may be, as the author says, "desolately cute." But his confusions raise an unsettling question: Did he sell...
...FICTION 1. The Silmarillion, Tolkien (1 last week...
...these matters. To be sure, James Bond continues to prosper on the movie screen, but only by becoming more outrageously campy each time out. His antagonists have become totally apolitical, more and more like those master criminals whose antecedents are to be found in turn-of-the-century pulp fiction. But the rest- as far as movies are concerned - is silence...