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...going to feed a writer, expect to get your hand bitten. It is the nature of the beast, as demonstrated with appropriate relish by John Gregory Dunne in Monster: Living Off the Big Screen (Random House; 203 pages; $21). Dunne is a journalist and novelist who, with his wife Joan Didion, another producer of stinging reportage and fiction, pays the family bills by writing movie scripts. Among those that made it to the cineplexes in one version or another are the Barbra Streisand remake of A Star Is Born and the Robert Redford-Michelle Pfeiffer showcase, Up Close and Personal...
BOOKS . . . MONSTER: LIVING OFF THE BIG SCREEN: John Gregory Dunne is a journalist and novelist who, with his wife Joan Didion, another producer of stinging reportage and fiction, pays the family bills by writing movie scripts. One of those, the Robert Redford?Michelle Pfeiffer showcase, 'Up Close and Personal,' is the subject of Dunne?s new book (Random House; 203 pages; $21). Originally the film was to be based on a biography of Jessica Savitch, the television reporter who died with her boyfriend in 1983 when their car accidentally rolled into the Delaware Canal near Philadelphia. But the details...
BOOKS . . . MONSTER: LIVING OFF THE BIG SCREEN: John Gregory Dunne is a journalist and novelist who, with his wife Joan Didion, another producer of stinging reportage and fiction, pays the family bills by writing movie scripts. One of those, the Robert Redford?Michelle Pfeiffer showcase, 'Up Close and Personal,' is the subject of Dunne?s new book (Random House; 203 pages; $21). Originally the film was to be based on a biography of Jessica Savitch, the television reporter who died with her boyfriend in 1983 when their car accidentally rolled into the Delaware Canal near Philadelphia. But the details...
...Union speech this week, television viewers will see a familiar Capitol Hill tableau: a sober-faced Newt Gingrich sitting behind Bill Clinton. But the more intriguing and unfamiliar pairing will be up in the balcony, where Gingrich's wife Marianne will be sitting with country star Travis Tritt, Joan Shalikashvili, wife of the general, and...Jesse Jackson. Last week Newt extended an invitation to his ideological opposite to sit in the Gingrich family box in the Speaker's gallery, and it was accepted. The unlikely twosome have been communing since Gingrich's opening-day speech to the House, where...
...Star Wars" cast is ticked off: Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill. Admittedly, the quality of many of the characters imposes severe restrictions on the range of the dramatic possibilities available to the actors; there are only so many ways that an actress can play the role of a Joan of Arc figure that is an unabashed stereotype, as Fisher probably learned as she approached her Princess Leia character, the leader of the insurrectionists. And Lucas undoubtedly never intended "Star Wars" to be a showcase full of stars, perhaps bearing in mind that some recent releases with similar box office...