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Oscar Hijuelos is going to be a taking a lot of flack for his new book. The Fourteen Sisters of Emubo Members O'Brien. Readers expecting another gritty, melancholy and macho novel like. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love will be disappointed. Instead of the brutal realism of Mambo Kings, Fourteen Sisters is Latin American magical realism successfully transplanted to the United States. Where Mambo Kings depicted a world of men. Fourteen Sisters celebrates femininity, "the female principle of life, the nurturing things," as Hijuelos stated in a recent New York magazine interview...
Joanna Cassidy is perfect as Robinson's flack-from-the-inferno wife Linda. (It was her firm that cooked up the ingenious idea of sending its calaboose-bound client, Michael Milken, to Shea Stadium, chaperoning hundreds of poor black children, an incident that is still remembered as one of the most cynical, albeit futile, stunts in the sorry history of public relations.) Rita Wilson as Kravis' wife, the fashion designer Carolyne Roehm, is quite believable in the role of a woman whose single indulgence was a daily Oreo. Even the smaller parts work quite well, notably Leilani Ferrer as Johnson...
...after a half-century of hustling and scratching, after no college and hard knocks, after working as everything from mail-room clerk to racetrack flack, after six marriages, one annulment and five divorces, after being arrested for grand larceny, after declaring bankruptcy, after suffering a heart attack and undergoing bypass surgery, after all this and more, Larry King has finally arrived. His weeknight shows on CNN and Mutual radio are watched and listened to by more than 4 million people. A King interview nudged Ross Perot into the presidential arena. Another caused Dan Quayle to ruminate on what he might...
Perot has profited handsomely from corporate influence (look at EDS and its Medicare contracts). And more importantly, Perot is corporate to the core. His press spokesperson, quick to refuse comment, responds to questions like the public relations flack of a Fortune 500 company. the candidate himself talks about revolutionizing American politics in 90 days, as though he were issuing some sort of quarterly report...