Word: garp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never before have so many writers actually stepped upon a stage or gone before the cameras. In months to come, John Irving will be seen as a wrestling coach in the film version of his novel The World According to Garp, Herlihy will play the king of the hobos in a new play by California Playwright Henry Murray, and Novelist and Screenwriter John Sayles will take Plimpton's cue and assume the role of seducer in a film titled Lianna...
...Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving. The author of The World According to Garp introduces a sweet, dangerous dreamer who transports his odd family from New England to the city of waltzes and Wittgenstein...
...impression that things may just not be as funny as they were in Lehrer's prime. Perhaps the combination of ego and bluster to which Lehrer attributed most of the world's ills no longer suffices as an explanation, even in comedy; perhaps humor today--from Mork to Garp--must live on its own, away from the world, because the world isn't very funny. Tom Lehrer, on the other hand, thought people could think and laugh at the same time. He says he still thinks so, but he's teaching math in California...
...very good friend recommended "Garp to me last summer. So this is as good a time as any to get it along with his new book," John Marcelynas, of Boston, said yesterday while waiting in line...
Irving, wearing a green LaCoste shirt and blue chinos, joked with his fans during the signings. When one man asked if he would sign his worn copy of "Garp," Irving said, "Sure. It's still good...