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...Barbara Grizzuti Harrison...
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison understands that the most important character in any journalistic account is usually the journalist herself...
...Harrison is forcefully present on every page. Although she treats subjects as diverse a Francis Ford Coppola, Nadia Comeneci, a Vermont religious cult, racial tensions in New York and ethnic conflict in Yugoslavia, her book retains a logic and cohesion through Harrison's distinctive voice and sensibility...
Fittingly, the opening pieces serve as an introduction to Harrison--her past, beliefs and prejudices. She writes eloquently and wittily about her difficult past. In one essay, she recounts her experiences as a seven year old" precocious little mouthpiece for the apocalypse" who preached door-to-door on behalf of her mother, a Jehovah's Witness. We read about her early alienation from the Italian American suburb of Bensonhurst in which she grew up; her defection from its provincialism to feminism and bohemianism; her marriage and divorce...
When hollywood moguls dine at Mortons, their favorite entree is fish out of water. They love movies that reveal the familiar through brand-new eyes. If detective Harrison Ford could cozy up to the Amish in Witness, why couldn't detective Melanie Griffith go undercover among Brooklyn's Hasidic Jews and become one of the mishpocha? The reason why not is A STRANGER AMONG US. This pill of a thriller, written by Robert Avrech, manages to demean everyone involved, regardless of creed or previous credits. The usually workmanlike Sidney Lumet directs Griffith to be shrill and most of the Hasidim...