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...happy, well-connected family. His father Ted carries on the family tradition as a lawyer. His mother, a former dancer and airline stewardess, gets credit for bending the twig. "She wouldn't let us just watch television. She would say, 'Be a doer!'" With second wife Joan and their two children, Branson manages a vaguely normal life-style. The children are not sent away to school; Joan does the cooking; the obligatory nanny is her niece. Weekends are spent in the home of their heart in Oxfordshire, two conjoined cottages set on a river. Of course, there is that little...
This Esmeralda is less a medieval Gypsy than a willful California teen with Joan of Arc aspirations; imagine a Loire Valley Girl, a Militia Silverstone. Hurling invective at Frollo, flirting with the hunky, John Smith-like Captain Phoebus (Kevin Kline) and singing the film's most poignant solo, about a Gypsy holocaust ("God help the outcasts, or nobody will"), she emerges as the latest in Disney's line of feminist freedom fighters--a Pocahontas with Romany eyes...
...Joan Mellen's good idea was to do a double biography of both, Hellman and Hammett (HarperCollins; 572 pages). They were colorful, talented, careless people who lived hard, fought with abandon and traveled impetuously, seeking out their gifted contemporaries in an American movable feast. Both believed that sexual freedom was a natural right. Their passions, personal and professional, could be an opportunity to examine American cultural history from the 1930s to the 1970s--the life of the left and of the theater, which were often related. The trouble is that Mellen's interest in that fascinating world is only perfunctory...
...think it's marvelous," said Marvin Kalb, Edward R. Murrow professor of press, politics and public policy at the Kennedy School and Director of the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy...
...lovely playlets, Lucas' What I Meant Was (a young man reimagines the dinner-table arguments he's had with his family, so that everyone is now rueful and forgiving) and Hwang's Trying to Find Chinatown (a Caucasian and a Chinese discover detente in their crisscrossing cultural identities). Joan Ackermann's sweet, funny The Batting Cage takes a comic cliche, the smothering sister (enchantingly embodied by Veanne Cox), and gives her life and depth as she comes to terms with her family...