Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Singer's work sometimes drops precipitously from reasoned metaphysics to unexamined mysticism. In ghost stories, where everything is possible for the narrator, too little is plausible for the reader. It is in his least adorned works that the mysteries of affection and identity are hauntingly stated. Sam Palka and David Vishkover, for example, is not merely the richest tale in Passions, but one of the most provocative short fictions of the last decade. In his customary role, Sam Palka, self-made entrepreneur, swaggers through a career of indulgence. In off-hours he assumes the role of Vishkover, a modest...
Call This Show Jaws. Among those handing in due bills on opening night were the cast of the hit Broadway musical The Wiz, parading down the theater's center aisle singing Ease on Down the Road. "Aren't they fantastic?" intoned Howard. Briefly, the ghost of Ed Sullivan seemed to fill the night air. At a funereal pace followed the nonsinging Frank Sinatra, who dropped by to wish Howard luck ("Why don't you just call this show Jaws?), John Denver (who dedicated a song to Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau) and Shirley Bassey. Via satellite, Howard visited...
...Charlestown Navy Yard is filled with dirty old granite buildings. The Yard is shut down now, closed by the government in 1973. It's ghost town, silently rotting away on the banks of the Charles River. Some buildings, like the one next to the USS Constitution, have managed to escape anonymity simply by historical proximity. But most of the structures are like Building 36, lacking a history before the mid-1800's, serving for a brief time as a sail-making factory, and scarred by an ugly brick addition tacked on to meet World War Two supply demands...
...movie is so much cleaner than the book that it sacrifices any erotic appeal. No matter that the book was rumored to have been ghost-written and that Hollander probably never did half the stuff that she claimed. It was fun to read about her doing it with a dog. And a lot of people, if they remember nothing else about the book, will remember her earnest assertion that you can always tell the size of a man's sexual organ's by the length of his fingers. The I've been there and back narrative of the real Xaviera...
...friends testify that Brooks never entirely abandons comedy in private. Singer Harry Nilsson recalls sleeping off a drunk one night on the floor at Brooks' small house in the Hollywood hills. His host appeared before him dressed in a clown suit and whispered his name like a beckoning ghost. All in the Family's Rob Reiner remembers going for a drive with his boyhood pal and getting lost. Brooks went into a field and asked directions back to Los Angeles from a cow. "It ought to know," Brooks reasoned. "It lives around here...