Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That haunting, half-familiar figure with the rifle is not Lee Harvey Oswald, but Actor John Pleshette, filming an ABC-TV movie about him. The film shows Oswald's years in Russia and his life with Marina, but switches in a key spot to fiction. The script eliminates Jack Ruby and his fatal shot from history, leaving Oswald alive to go on trial-Eichmann-like-in a glass box. The verdict on his guilt is being kept secret from Ben Gazzara, who plays the ambitious prosecuting attorney, and Lorne Greene, the defense attorney. Nor does Pleshette yet know...
There are no such heroes in the fiction of Louis Auchincloss, and his romantics almost always pay for succumbing to egoism and stepping out of line Auchincloss's novels and story collections (nearly one a year for 20 years) deal almost exclusively with New York City's white Anglo-Saxon Protestant haven of old name and old money, whose corridor of power runs from the brownstones and duplexes of the Upper East Side to the paneled offices of Wall Street. It is an influential, publicity-shy world where the rules of the game are hardened by tradition...
...better perch from which to observe human nature. Matters can be hidden from a psychoanalyst that can never be hidden from the man who draws up one's will. Perhaps because they usually survive to become the inheritors, women have been especially strong characters in Auchincloss's fiction. "After the age of about 40," he once observed "an American woman has a better eye with which to see contemporary society than an American man. She is free of the demands of traditional professional life of the American man. Man narrows himself down to one form of conception...
Humorist H. Allen Smith, a longtime friend and fellow jackanapes who died last year, records these contradictions with bemusement and affection. He attempts to separate Fowler facts from Fowler fiction, but it does not really matter. As was Fowler himself, this parting toast is full of warm summertime laughter...
Engaged in the great American game of trying to have it both ways, Playboy and Penthouse try to distance themselves from their gamier rivals. Both run serious critical departments on films, books and records. Playboy carries fiction, though not often the best work, by top writers, who are paid top prices because their presence, in the jargon of Hollywood, "authenticates" the magazine...