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Bugsy-currently doing turn-a way business in London and scheduled to open Stateside in mid-September-fits into that peculiarly British tradition of grown-up childhood literature. Consider Never-Never Land transported to 1929 New York City and Peter Pan sporting a chalk-stripe double-breasted. The imagination stretches...
She has described her work in a recently published book called The Gift of Inner Healing (Word Books; $4.95). In it she tells about Mary Anne, whose marriage she saved, Jeff, who had trouble relating to women and Jody, who came to her because he was troubled about his homosexuality...
It is not important. What is important-and very nicely done too-is the way everyone reverts instantly to childhood in moments of crisis. Moriarty (Leo McKern) is set up as a math wizard, for example, but his blackboard is covered with a second-grader's mistakes. When he...
Fenway Park is something else. Later in the year, I heard, high up in the bleachers someone stood up midway through a late inning of a dull game, dropped his pants and underwear, stuck out his tongue, and started screaming the Sox encouragement. The cops led him away, as I...
Buying new sneakers, without which summer cannot begin at all. Hanging the porch swing, gathering dandelion blossoms, pressing them, adding rain water and waiting for the bubbles of fermentation. A friend leaves town. An old man dies. Grandma cooks a mighty belly-boggling, legendary dinner. Douglas gets sick and lies...