Word: glitz
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When the Shubert brothers took on You Never Know, they felt compelled to add a heavy coating of glitz. The result was a near-total disaster. By contrast, the Huntington troupe has remained faithful to Porter's original conception of the play, mounting a production that captures all of Porter's charm and many of his faults--among them, a rather sportsmanlike view of romance...
...Guns and glitz highlight a play-it-safe season
...city has had no Dickens; it does not have one here. It has defied attempts to capture it entirely: writers have taken it on, got lost in its complexities, returned advance money. How can anything linear be made of sprawl, dirty air, glitz, wealth, power, celebrities, a Noah's ark of immigrants, real estate gone mad, earthquakes, brushfires, mud slides, avalanches, floods, a million or so illegal aliens, freeways, enslavement to the automobile, drive-in churches, Disneyland, outrageous poverty, oil, the Pacific Rim, living on the fault line, heart-stopping geographical beauty, to name but a few ingredients...
...play well among California voters, many of whom see themselves the same way. But Mickey Kantor, the high-gear manager of Mondale's California effort, asserts that his man will not lose the state, despite his Frostbelt starchiness. Says Kantor: "We're going to win here. The glitz won't bother Fritz...
...Hemingway that decorates his study. Says he: "I learned to write from For Whom the Bell Tolls." But, he concedes, "my attitude's different. I see humor everywhere. The fact is, I'm probably closer to Richard Pryor." The accuracy of his work comes from dogged research. Glitz, the novel in progress, is set in Atlantic City. Before he went there himself, Leonard's assistant, Detroit Film Writer Gregg Sutter, had collected interviews with dealers and policemen and delivered 180 sequential photographs of the entire town. The American speech that lends authenticity to every page comes from...