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...there is more. Greenfeld's antihero, Larry Lazar, is not a conventionally Philistine tycoon, trampling on the souls of artists. He is an artist, an acclaimed creator of humanistic films who just happens to be, personally, a creep. He would rather betray a friend than lose a deal. When Lazar feels a charitable impulse and gives money to the less fortunate, he connives to get the studio to pay him back. And he is not merely greedy. He is, as a colleague remarks, "an aesthetic hustler" who looks upon every intimate-even his unlamented mother-as movie "material...
Repulsive as Larry Lazar often is, he maneuvers so clumsily that he has a certain bearlike charm. Moreover, his victims are in their ways equally ravenous for sex, money and fame, and as eager to use Lazar as he is to use them. Mira, an old girlfriend, resumes a romance only to take back a now valuable piece from her early career as a sculptor. Michael, a lesbian, seduces Lazar in order to get him to read her screenplay. Sidney Stein, a novelist, invites Lazar to his home for dinner merely to lure him out into the woods and beat...
...church picnic. She soon let us know what she thought about the language and sex." B.O.T.'s catalogue now gives an XX rating for tapes of Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus and The Hite Report. But even the lustiest prose is underplayed. Actor Dan Lazar reads My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Errol Flynn's spicy autobiography, in the vocal equivalent of Muzak. Says Hecht: "We don't mind a slight inflection at tense or emotional moments, but the listener will find his own excitement in the words just as he does when he reads...
...series of "little things, just flukes," led Lazar to find a position in education, about which she says she knows "absolutely nothing." At Harvard, she says, she did "almost nothing extracurricular, dabbling in a play, a couple of jobs," and now writing the Southern sections...
...only support from someone I respected." Coles serves on the board of directors of the Lyndhurst Foundation. a University of Alabama-connected philanthropic organization that has sponsored many health care programs in the South and is now branching out into education. He "found a connection," and over spring vacation Lazar took a 24-hour bus ride from Chicago to Birmingham to meet this stranger...