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...book reviewer for the British magazine the New Statesman, and displayed an avuncular warmth that Naipaul warmly recalls. But Naipaul now conducts a shameful hatchet job on his late benefactor's reputation, depicting him as the plodding ham of English drawing-room novelists and wondering if their friendship lasted "because I had not examined his work." Sam Selvon he boasts of having insulted face-to-face during a BBC radio interview, by referring to one of Selvon's books as "wretched." And Nirad Chaudhuri, in perhaps the least acerbic assessment, is dismissed as a pedant better suited to academia...
...Phony Friendship...
Joel Stein's "You Are Not My Friend" was a hilariously true portrait of "friendship" online [Oct.15]. Facebook can be a fun diversion, but it mainly streams self-important updates from people who are not true friends and makes users more concerned with monitoring others' lives than with living their...
Long standing friendship aside, Murphy’s focus remains on the game—and avoiding the upset...
...upcoming stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl’s story “The Fantastic Mr. Fox.” Angelica Huston, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, and Ahluwalia have played multiple roles in Anderson films as well. One might call it collective cinema. He calls it friendship.“I enjoy working with my friends, and in the case of [“Darjeeling”], the script really came from the combination of Roman, Jason, and my points of view,” the directed explained. “The movie has so much of Roman?...