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...maybe Meryl Streep for Francesca, though the female lead doesn't really matter that much, since most of the powerful sighing in the story is done by Kincaid. But who will play Rationality, Kincaid's conscience? One vote here for Jack Nicholson, who wouldn't have any trouble with the pivotal scene in which "Rationality shrieked at him, 'Let it go, Kincaid, get back on the road. Shoot the bridges, go to India. Stop in Bangkok on the way and look up the silk merchant's daughter who knows every ecstatic secret the old ways can teach. Swim naked with...
...that description -- you had to wish that Robert James Waller had taken up a different hobby, ham radio or UFOs maybe, instead of writing itty-bitty novels. Because after The Bridges of Madison County hit the best-seller lists, with its weepy tale of 52-year-old photographer Robert Kincaid and fortyish Iowa farm wife Francesca Johnson meeting and spending four days in forbidden aerobics, then 25 years in noble renunciation, all privacy was gone. Lush-hipped, high-mileage beauties with roses in their teeth and not too much cellulite stared at you moist-eyed from behind self-service...
...last week, Bridges had sold 4.1 million copies and had stayed on the best-seller lists for 63 weeks, 33 of those in first place. That's a lot of hankies. Steven Spielberg has bought movie rights, and Robert Redford is, as they say, being spoken of to play Kincaid...
Among those reading from Du Bois' work were Dove, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah, author Jamaica Kincaid, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and Princeton's Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature Arnold Rampersad...
...Creative Writing subdivision of the English Department has expanded its offerings of uniquely named--all are three letters, rather than course numbers--classes. More options are available for fiction writers than they saw in the past, and Jamaica Kincaid returns to teach English Cvr, "Fiction Writing...