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...writer who has also dabbled in politics, prizefighting and performing. "Here I'm trying to make a professional, conventional film on its own terms." The movie boasts a $5 million budget and a cast that includes Ryan O'Neal as Madden, Isabella (Blue ; Velvet) Rossellini as his smoldering old flame and Newcomer Debra Sandlund as his estranged spouse. It is part of a two-picture deal Mailer has with Cannon films; the other part, already completed, was to write a screenplay for Jean- Luc Godard's King Lear...
None were more aware of this peril than the great totalitarians themselves. Hence Mao's desperate attempt to rekindle the flame with the Cultural Revolution. Only permanent revolution can meet the totalitarian ideal, and permanent revolution is impossible. Even tyranny needs its sleep...
...Guide To The Night, Mary Robison. A wise, poignant pumpkin-carving story from Harvard's own writer-in-residence. Apart from letting you cool down after the macabre O'Connor, "Yours" reveals a more human side to the Halloween season. And Robison finds a beautiful metaphor in the dying flame at the heart of every jack-o'-lantern...
...shaken in the spring of 1944, when the Nazis arrived and deported the Jewish population. Wiesel spent time in Auschwitz, where his mother and youngest sister were killed, and later in Buchenwald, where his father died. "The child that I was," he later wrote, "had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured...
...autumn sun lights on her shoulders as she sits in her White House drawing room, a red-dressed dot of flame that by some alchemy has ignited the nation against drugs. As First Lady, she could have eased up, turned away into antiques or gardening. "But you couldn't, you couldn't, you just couldn't," she says with the fervor of a healer that no one ever imagined dwelled in that 100-lb. frame so elegantly clothed and coiffed. "When you talk to those kids and you talk to those parents who are just torn apart, what it does...