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...America"? Yes and no. In her TV film, Stones for Ibarra, about an American couple who move to rural Mexico, Close, 40, returns to playing the sort of classy and controlled heroine that won her Academy Award nominations for three of her first four films, The World According to Garp, The Big Chill and The Natural. But after her stereotype-shattering performance as Alex, she will never be the same, professionally or personally...
...City and began acting with the Phoenix Theater Company. There she became fast friends with Actress Mary Beth Hurt, who recalls that Close's patrician reserve hid a "wild and playful" streak. Close's break was in the Broadway production of Barnum, which led to her being cast in Garp. One day she shocked the cast and crew after the production bogged down over a delicate nude scene in the boys' locker room. She suddenly stripped off her character's nurse uniform and streaked the cast and crew in an armor-like girdle and longline bra. "Everyone's jaw just...
McInerney's was the first fresh literary voice to attract national attention since John Irving finally arrived with The World According to Garp in 1978. McInerney made it faster, with less talent, by being in the right place at the right time. He also had a personal life that ran parallel to his fiction. Bright Lights caused a small stir by caricaturing a magazine that resembled the author's former employer, The New Yorker. The novel's more capitalizing feature was that its hero and his pals were regulars at Odeon and other lower- Manhattan spots that were trendy...
Irving, author of "The World According to Garp" and "The Hotel New Hampshire," also gave a sneak preview of his latest venture and fielded questions from the more than 40 people at the Lamont Library forum room...
Irving achieved national popularity in 1978 with "The World According to Garp," his first bestseller which became a blockbuster movie starring Robin Williams. His next novel, "The Hotel New Hampshire" also sold millions and made it to the silver screen...