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...makes no sense and does no good to lament little deteriorations on every side. Constant comparisons with better old days are illusory and unreliable. It's enough to say we used to have Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn and now we have Michael Douglas and Cher. If anything has been lessened at Wrigley Field, it is probably something quite small, certainly nothing to cry over, only a momentary feeling of letdown, like missing the train...
...Arts and Sciences, Dianne Ferratwinkie (Maurice "Mo" Rocca) is the clear stand-out among Denuar's daughters. Rocca makes his character something more than a Jewish-American princess with a Snuffleupagus physique-he makes the character an audience favorite. Eric Morris's Maura Listic is a cross between Katherine Hepburn and a fireplug, a sawed-off priss with a delightful upper-crust twang...
Time out for a definition. As used here, the term lip sync does not refer to Audrey Hepburn pretending to sing Wouldn't It Be Loverly? in the film My Fair Lady. It has much more to do with the time, for instance, that this writer executed his memorable rolled-lip version of Mick Jagger singing Brown Sugar among friends at a small party in 1975. It has to do with your own marvelous rendering of New York, New York, the time you turned up the radio and cut loose somewhere out on I-80 east. Except that now people...
With success came creature comforts. Sondheim splurged in 1960 and bought a Manhattan town house after the movie sale of Gypsy. He still lives there, in an East Side enclave of houses that share a sprawling back garden with low brick walls, small fountains and mossy enclosures. Katharine Hepburn resides next door, but they did not meet until nearly a decade after he moved in. "I was up one night at about 3, pounding on the piano, writing The Ladies Who Lunch for Company, when I heard this banging on the garden door. There she was, in a babushka...
...Choice FICTION AGENTS OF INNOCENCE, David Ignatius -- THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES, Tom Wolfe -- LEAVING HOME, Garrison Keillor -- THE RADIANT WAY, Margaret Drabble -- ROCK SPRINGS, Richard Ford -- A SOUTHERN FAMILY, Gail Godwin NONFICTION A LIFE IN PEACE AND WAR, Brian Urquhart -- THE MAKING OF THE AFRICAN QUEEN, Katharine Hepburn -- MAN OF THE HOUSE, Tip O'Neill with William Novak -- THE MASK OF COMMAND, John Keegan -- MIAMI, Joan Didion -- THE SONGLINES, Bruce Chatwin