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...film's costars, Alexandra Paul, 18, and Daryl Hannah, 20, landed their roles is an equally drafty tale, one that could have been cooked up by the counterman at Schwab's drugstore. Alexandra, a graduate of preppie Groton, turned up at a New York audition for Dolls and was whisked off to the coast. Daryl was a Hollywood ingenue-in-waiting. Soon they may become household manes. Both are "discoveries" of Charlie's Angels Producer Leonard Goldberg, 48, who is already talking about stretching Paper Dolls out into a series. On TV, your plots can never...
...HANNAH ARENDT: FOR LOVE OF THE WORLD by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Yale University; 563 pages...
Philosophy is concerned with two matters: soluble questions that are trivial, and crucial questions that are insoluble. Hannah Arendt always knew the difference; her critics sometimes did. In the disparity lay the tragedies and consolations of a career still sparking debate 19 years after the appearance of her most controversial book...
Rarely has a character been formed so early. In her vast, indulgent biography, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl records a note made by Frau Arendt in 1908, when Hannah was less than two: "Mostly she talks her own language which she enunciates very fluently. Understands everything." By Hannah's adolescence, that could no longer be considered a mother's exaggeration. She was far ahead of her class at Konigsberg, and at Marburg University she began a lifelong affair with philosophy, and a shorter, scarcely less passionate one with a philosopher...
...Never mind, she would observe and wait. Her time would come. Was English new and difficult? Very well, she would immerse herself in it. Her books would benefit. Heinrich made notes of new phrases: "Tickled to death"; "Hit the jackpot"; "Make a mess of it"; "Nifty chick!" Hannah made lists of concepts and categories...