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...observations. The relationship between Ivan (a Broadway playwright played by Pacino) and his extended family (five kids, only one of whom is really his) never develops. The existence of an eccentric bond between adult and children remains a given throughout. Unlike the blossoming affection between Dustin Hoffman and Justin Henry in Kramer vs. Kramer, this arrangement seems static...
...Geoffrey the conniving serpent his actions prove him, but every detail of gait and intonation inspire empathy as well for a tortured, constantly overlooked middle child. The meatiest role of the three is probably that of John, the obnoxious teenager utterly scorned by siblings and parents alike, and Justin Richardson treads the fine line between caricature and believability, screeching and gloating with aplomb and a superb sense of timing...
...oddity: of the six supporters who signed the 1,400 invitations, only Feulner attended. The no-shows: Brewer Joseph Coors, Financier Justin Dart, former Treasury Secretary William Simon, the Moral Majority's Rev. Jerry Falwell and Columnist William Buckley. Dart was in the hospital, and the others said they had previous engagements...
...Justin Scott made his reputation in 1978 with The Shipkiller, a superbly written thriller that also had the sea and revenge as its themes. In Normandie, he is again a virtuoso of technical detail and characterization...
...Manhattan dock in 1942, it was not so much its beauty that was mourned as the loss of one of the fastest passenger ships ever built, then being refitted as an Allied troop transport that could outrun any U-boat. In Normandie Triangle (Arbor House; 475 pages; $13.95), Novelist Justin Scott evokes the grace and power of the great ship even as he describes its destruction and welds an ambitious Nazi stratagem to the smoldering hulk...