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WILDLIFE by Richard Ford; Atlantic Monthly Press; 177 pages...
...Richard Ford's growing number of admirers may be puzzled at first by a sense of deja vu when they begin his new novel. Haven't we met people like this, in a similar landscape, somewhere before? Of course. In mood and subject matter, Wildlife seems to be a natural extension of Ford's highly praised collection of short stories, Rock Springs (1987); in fact, one of those stories, Great Falls, foreshadows the central plot of Wildlife. But to point out such similarities is not to suggest that the author is repeating himself. He is, rather, playing a longer, more...
...simple description of that theme -- coming of age in the boondocks, the triumph of hope over the dictates of happenstance -- inevitably misrepresents and diminishes the nature of Ford's accomplishments. His fiction is almost totally free of abstractions, of arrows pointing to the meanings or the morals to be drawn. What Ford renders most faithfully is the texture of experience, not the lessons learned but how it feels to be enlightened...
Throughout the brouhaha, Clay (who will star in the summer film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane) maintained his customary off-camera swagger. Commenting on Dunn's walkout, he told Entertainment Tonight, "I think she's just doing this because I am the hottest comic in the world today." Not true, but for one week he came awfully close. Alas...
...studios will have to top themselves again for the big Christmas season. No problem there. Sylvester Stallone reportedly will be paid $20 million to write and star in Rocky V, a $40 million MGM/UA release due in December. The year-end holidays will also bring to the screen Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather III. The problem-plagued sequel was originally budgeted at $44 million, but it could become the first film to top $100 million...