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...notebook one day in 1987: "Two women go on a crime spree." Khouri, whose first screenplay this is, had the notion that if a female couple were somehow forced by circumstances to take up the outlaw life, they would, under the suspenseful impress of life on the lam, undergo the same kind of bonding process -- sweet, funny, appealing -- that male protagonists customarily experience in this kind of movie. But she also seemed to sense that just because of its off-casting, it could have a jagged edginess that its models had long since lost...
...battle of the sexes, Thelma & Louise sends the message that little ground has been won. For these two women, feminism never happened. Thelma and Louise are so trapped that the only way for them to get away for more than two days is to go on the lam. They become free but only wildly, self-destructively so -- free to drive off the ends of the earth...
...reckless, boundingly readable fifth novel, British writer William Boyd picks up the story at the point where Mallabar, in glamorous, leonine middle age, has lost track of the scruples part of his success formula. His nemesis is Hope Clearwater, who is on the lam from a troubled marriage in England and working as one of several learned acolytes who patiently observe and record the diurnal activities of chimps. She is assigned a small number of animals who have separated from the main group, and almost at once she stumbles on big news. Peaceful primates? Strictly sloganeering. The chimps are capable...
...Angeles Times foreign correspondent David Lamb, the author of Stolen Season (Random House; $20), is a middle-age man on the lam from his own life. Rather than acting out his mid-life fantasies with the aid of a red sports car, Lamb buys an RV and sets out for a magic summer in quest of the heart of America, minor-league baseball. Writing in the spirit of Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, Lamb forsakes dramatic narrative for an endearing travelogue filled with small piquant details. His odyssey is oddly humbling. He encounters a boyhood hero, Hall of Fame slugger...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Paul Dovell, John Dragonetti, Paul Gettinger, Kin Wah Lam, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Mark P. Polomski, Lois Rubenstein, Jacqueline Shubitowski, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton, Simon Tack, Paul White...