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Fraudulence and self-delusion are strong themes in Wolff's work, as they are in books by his brother, Geoffrey Wolff, whose Bad Debts and The Duke of Deception deal with the misdeeds of the authors' con-man father Arthur Samuels Wolff, alias Arthur Saunders Wolff III, alias Saunders Ansell-Wolff III. In The Rich Brother, Tobias handles raffishness with affection. The hustler wearing the red blazer and Roman-emperor toupee, who hitches a ride with a Century 21 realtor and his blissed-out brother, is in the grand American tradition. "'I am by training an engineer,' Webster began...
...friends, including New York Mayor Edward Koch, were startled. Manes was at the peak of his 21-year political career, newly re-elected, and admired by his constituents. Soon, though, the reason for Manes' inner torture became known: his close friend Geoffrey Lindenauer, 52, whom Manes had placed as deputy director of the city's parking-violations bureau, was charged with extorting $5,000 from a private collection agency as a payoff for a contract to dun motorists for unpaid parking tickets...
...Being gifted helps, and on graduating in 1990, McKenzie was immediately cast opposite Russell Crowe in Geoffrey Wright's incendiary Romper Stomper. If it was a baptism by fire, it was "a really beautiful one," she recalls. "It was my first film but boy was I agog." She remembers rookie director Wright as "a great coaxer," and took acting notes from her costar, who she calls "an exquisite performer." For Crowe, "it's straight back to the drawing board," says McKenzie. "Who's the character? What does he believe in? Who's his family...
...GEOFFREY CRAIG...
...Wales 10 out of 10 after a smashing Saturday Night Fever pas de deux that stopped other White House dancers in their tracks. "I tried to do my fanciest footwork with her," said the still glowing actor afterward. "We did well together." Of her much discussed clothes, Couturier Geoffrey Beene observed in the New York Times: "Some of the design is not on target to me as a professional, but who cares? Her presence overcomes any banalities of dress." The London Express's royal watcher Jean Rook concluded, "She has given America what it craved, glamour, glitz . . . Dianasty." There were...