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Despite being repeatedly rejected from Archibald McLeish’s poetry workshop, he was able to take a fiction-writing class with Albert Guerard, where he drafted a short story about a former basketball player named Flick...
...character of a high-school basketball star carried Updike through the first leg of a precocious literary career. Flick Webb became the ex-basketball player in an early poem that remains one of his most anthologized, and, more famously, Rabbit Angstrom the hero of a tetrology of novels that has become the cornerstone of his oeuvre...
...Flick Webb is the subject of an early poem that remains one of his most anthologized, and, more famously, the figure of the ex-basketball player evolved into Rabbit Angstrom, the hero of a tetrology of novels that remains the cornerstone of Updike’s oeuvre...
Note to Rose: whenever you're in doubt of your abilities, just take out a copy of Goddess. Nowhere else is her loopy sadness and extraterrestrial beauty put to better effect. In Law's underrated art-house flick, Byrne plays a damaged blind girl who lures a young Tokyo man across the Outback; her hair squirrel red, the color of the DS-model Citro?n he has journeyed to Australia to buy. Even before the cameras rolled, Byrne surprised her director by coming into rehearsals "not learning to be blind, but already like a blind person," Law recalls. With downcast eyes...
With a movie called Be Cool, the cast had better, well, be cool. In next year's sequel to the 1995 Mob flick Get Shorty, chill rapper ANDRE 3000 (real identity: Andre Benjamin) and Bill killer UMA THURMAN (real identity: foxy movie-star mama) supply the requisite edge. Andre, the sex-symbol half of the Grammy-winning hip-hop duo OutKast, plays Dabu "a trigger-happy parody of all rappers," he says. "He's a dude from the street, and he's kind of crazy. He'll be in a normal conversation just itching to shoot somebody." Thurman's Edie...