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Scardino's freckles and Letterman-style gap between his front teeth are cute from far away. When they take up the entire screen for the majority of the film, however, you begin to wish the director would cut to a Scope commercial and remind kids to brush their teeth...
Spiraling gracefully toward that conclusion, Cartwright, a novelist with film experience, often becomes the target of his own satire. At the center of the story is S.O. Letterman, a movie producer who starts off high-minded and ends with his eye on the box office. Letterman does not give a rat's rump for historical truth. Tim Curtiz, a London-based journalist taking a crack at a lucrative script-writing assignment, does. The subject of the movie, called Masai Dreams, is a striking French anthropologist named Claudia Cohn-Casson, whose work among the Masai, and whose fate at the hands...
...Claudia's lover. A former British army officer describes his romance with Cohn-Casson and her return to Paris during the final months of World War II. Why would an intelligent, worldly Jew deliberately return to Hitler's Europe? While Curtiz is pursuing the answer in Kenya and Tanzania, Letterman is busy in Paris checking out every aspect of a celebrated French actress. She turns out to be a transsexual--just one of the illusions shattered on the hard, polished surface of this novel...
Marketing a hero requires some clever strategizing. Last week Air Force officials offered to put some of the Marines who rescued O'Grady on the David Letterman show along with him. "But we learned that the invitation to us for Letterman was only to sweeten the pot," a senior Marine officer said. "Because O'Grady already was slated to go on Leno, Letterman wouldn't take him unless the Pentagon could offer something extra, so the Air Force invited us to tag along to use as leverage to get Letterman to take him." The Marines refused to entertain the offer...
...sounds like a monologue joke: DAVID LETTERMAN'S ratings have dipped so much that SALMAN RUSHDIE hides out on his show. The novelist, introduced as a man "who doesn't get out very often," handed over the Top 10 List on Friday's Late Show in London. "If you need me, I'll be at the London Plaza Hotel," joked Rushdie, who is in hiding from a death sentence under Islamic law. He later talked with Letterman's mom. "Exchanging recipes," said Dave...