Word: garp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...depth profile of the man who created Garp, Sheppard began back in May to interview the author and his family, friends and associates. Besides making two trips to Irving's home in Putney, Vt., he tracked his subject in such settings as an American Booksellers Association convention in Atlanta, where he joined Irving for a session of jogging and exercise in a hotel health club. Visiting the set of the film version of Garp in Millbrook, N.Y., he watched Irving coach Actor Robin Williams on the finer points of wrestling-but prudently did not participate. "Whether the subject...
...Garp Creator John Irving strikes again The pieces of the dream machine are in place. Scaffolding has been erected against a brick building for a shot involving a small boy who nearly falls off a roof. At the edge of a vast lawn, a fake rock wall and Styrofoam cannon mark the location of the sex scene. The trucks that moved the cameras, props and coils of electrical spaghetti have been converted into Teamster poker parlors. For the hot, thirsty crew that has assembled jv this summer on the bosky Georgian campus of the Millbrook School near Poughkeepsie...
Irving, 39, a former collegiate and A.A.U. wrestler, has been hired by Director George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) to coach Williams for Garp's match at Steering School, the fictional New England prep school of the novel. Accompanied by Sons Colin, 16, and Brendan, 11, Irving arrives at the Millbrook gym dressed to grapple: red singlet, kneepads and ear guards that resemble perforated saucers. In preparation for his role as the epical Wrestler-Writer T.S. Garp, "Mork" Williams has selected a modified outer-space look: a shiny blue and green workout suit that encases...
...around Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, with its "karass," and the casually philosophical "So it goes," from Slaughterhouse-Five. The end of the decade be longed to Irving and Garpomania: a choice of paperback in six delicious cover colors and T shirts reading I BELIEVE IN GARP and BEWARE OF THE UNDERTOAD-a phrase that Irving attributes to Son Brendan, who once misunderstood a warning about swimming in the ocean...
...admired colleagues as Stanley Elkin and John Gardner. After that he goes on to New York to participate in the editing of Garp footage. He is also working on a short novel based on Ivan Turgenev's First Love. Irving came under the influence of the Russian masters at New Hampshire's Phillips Exeter Academy, where his step father Colin Irving introduced Russian studies to the curriculum...