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...novel Orlando, inspired by Woolf's love for Vita Sackville-West, is a gay lark disguised as a historical biography. Centuries and genders fly past, each one bending like a willow to accommodate Woolf's puckish feminist insight and hindsight. Potter's movie, faithful in spirit to the book, is something else. It is, in the best sense, a travesty, a masquerade, a cross-dressing comedy of eros. Yet moviegoers do believe in Orlando, in the breadth of its canvas, the immediacy of its emotions, the palliative power of its wit. They can swim in its gorgeous images: the fruit...
...this particular Saturday, however, the alarm went off in the morning. And because our alarms usually went off every weekend night at oh, 2:30 a.m. or so, I wondered if this new, daylight alarm signaled an actual fire. I picked up my copy of Song of the Lark, grabbed my glass of orange juice and evacuated the dining hall along with the other five or six early-risers...
What really happened was, some people crowded around the Breakfast Bar to grab bagels. A lot of people went back to bed. Everyone was fairly cranky. I read two more pages of Song of the Lark, but not before I paused to smile and shake my head thoughtfully...
...from Esquire magazine, who saw him perform at the Democratic Convention: Roger was the long-haired Clinton with the mike during the Circle of Friends finale who almost overshadowed the nominee every time he thrust his fist upward with the show-biz earnestness of a crooner. Mostly as a lark, the journalists formed a company called Snarling Jackass Productions, each putting up $250, to try to snag Roger a record contract. They persuaded him to cut a demonstration tape in Nashville, but after the election Roger sniffed the chance at a better deal and dropped them. Last month he signed...
...better not to regard this crew as a team at all, but rather as an ensemble of excellent actors on a goofy, lively lark. Sure, they gain and lose their elusive electronic grail the requisite number of times, often surprisingly. Their larger obligation, however, is not to the implausible plot but to their funky characters, and to the nice, wistful mood of the film. They all share a nostalgia for '60s idealism; even their nemesis (Ben Kingsley) operates out of a dark variant on those quixotic beliefs...