Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beautiful female aide. Cohen and Hart, anxious about the book's reception, have sent copies of the thriller to every Senator; most of them relish the depiction of the Senate, and some find certain aspects very familiar. Barry Goldwater told Cohen, "You call it fiction? I don't. I saw a little bit of me in there." For the two collaborators, life may indeed be imitating art. Hart confesses that sometimes before a vote in the Senate, Cohen will say to him, "What would Chandler do about this...
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...defects people have come to know and love in Elmore Leonard's crime fiction are painfully apparent in the adaptation of Stick, which he has written with Joseph C. Stinson: lots of plotting, but no compelling narrative drive; plenty of characterological tics, but no characters whom one really cares for. In the title role, Burt Reynolds has somehow mislaid that cheeky brightness that is the basis of his stardom. His performance is so muted it is sometimes hard to hear his lines, and he has directed the film in the same torpid spirit. This story of an ex-con whose...
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