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...leagues and have three Cy Young Awards apiece to show it. Each also possesses more than a touch of glamour. A section of Palmer's adolescence was spent residing in the Los Angeles movie community, Beverly Hills, where his habit was to rise early hoping to observe Janet Leigh picking up the paper in her pink peignoir. Now Palmer can be seen in his underwear on billboards, but seldom in uniform on a mound. Pestered by various miseries, Palmer was in the minor leagues last week tuning up for the stretch drive. Ballplayers are notoriously brave about one another...
...farmer of William F. Van Wert's poetic Putting & Gardening discovers peace without change. On a Florida golf course his son observes him "on hands and knees, lovingly replacing my divot on . . . the only garden that is left for him." Like most of the ten women writers represented, Leigh Buchanan Bienen examines the everyday. Middle-class marriage is the subject, and only her narrator is exotic in My Life As a West African Gray Parrot...
That is especially true because Lila, the once sweet sister of Marion Crane (Janet Leigh in the original), has been nursing a need for vengeance all this time...
...personal grotesqueries, but it was real brilliance. He grew up with the film industry, and at his best gave movies a dazzling visual impudence: the single flash of color in the black-and-white Spellbound, as the pistol of the suicidal villain flares red; the wicked eroticism of Janet Leigh's shower scene in Psycho, a film that, as Spoto points out, takes pains to make the viewer queasily aware of being a voyeur. Hitchcock's final obsession was secretiveness, but he has been well served by a knowledgeable and revealing biography...
DIED. Walter Reisch, 79, Academy Award-winning screen author who wrote, and occasionally directed, some 25 films in Austria and Germany before fleeing to the U.S. in the 1930s to script hit movies for Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight) and Vivien Leigh (That Hamilton Woman) and to win an Oscar for the 1953 disaster epic Titanic; of pancreatic cancer; in Los Angeles...