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...like this and The Stunt Man. It is, of course, to John Barrymore, offering up his very self to parody the charm and bravado, the intelligence and weakness of the character behind a classic leading man's profile. The result, now as then, is work that goes beyond laughter into the more sublime realms of honest and poignant self-revelation. -By Richard Schickel
...Times as its food editor. It has been said that this private house of his here in East Hampton, near the eastern tip of Long Island, is one of the best restaurants in the U.S. Claiborne repeats this bouquet in his new memoir-with-recipes, A Feast Made for Laughter (Doubleday; $17.95). But so light and joyous is his touch when he writes about food, and so much of the praise redirected toward his talented colleague, French Chef Pierre Franey, that his self-beguilement seems no more than just...
...obsession has always made some people mad. The thing is, Rose won't even walk when he gets a walk. At an All-Star Game several years ago, Aaron was berating Joe Morgan over what an infernal hot dog Rose was, and Morgan was shaking with laughter. "You sound like me before I played with him every day," Morgan said. "He plays the game that way because it's the only way he knows how to play it, probably the only way he can play it. He gives everything he has"-the laughter had left Morgan completely...
Smith covered the big games, races and fights, but it seldom mattered who won or lost. What counted was the sights and smells, the cadences of conversation, the laughter of old friends. Precious anecdotes were salted away and used again years later. This ability to call up the past gave his columns a resonance that has grown rare in daily journalism. To be sure, some of the 300-odd pieces gathered in these two volumes should have been left in yesterday's newspaper. But most are timeless, literate and witty enough to appeal to readers who do not know...
...enough to make an umpire cry. One of the most poignant was composed for the sportswriter John Lardner: "This is a loss to the living, to every one with a feeling for written English handled with respect and taste and grace, a tragic loss to the world of laughter...