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When upstart Tse Cashmere opened a Madison Avenue boutique in November, some 250 members of the fashion press showed up to pay their respects to a prospective new advertiser. The editors gossiped, sipped their drinks and looked each other up and down in that New York fashion-business way. A good time was had by all. When they left, most of them carried a small memento from Tse: a $160 cashmere sweater, one per partygoer...
They did not come easily to Iowa. Meryl Streep hated the book. When her assistant asked to borrow one of the several copies of The Bridges of Madison County that friends had pressed on her, she refused. "I'm not going to let you read it," she said. "It's a crime against literature." She told her agents she was not interested in doing the movie version...
...crits, those old prunes, scratched their high foreheads at the success of Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County. This tale of middle-age passion -- in which a roving photographer, Robert Kincaid, has a volcanic three-day affair with Francesca Johnson, an Italian woman who has lived for 20 years as an Iowa farmwife -- was filled with clichas masquerading as erotic eruptions. But Waller knows the secret of romance novels. He writes the way people feel and think when they are first in love-as if every emotion had the force of God's creation, as if such...
What's left is a brooding romantic fantasy. As scripted by Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King), the Madison County movie has a slightly riper theme than the book's. It is about the anticipation and consequences of passion-the slow dance of appraisal, of waiting to make a move that won't be rejected, of debating what to do when the erotic heat matures into love light. What is the effect of an affair on a woman who has been faithful to her husband, and on a rootless man who only now realizes he needs the one woman...
Taylor will be moving to Madison, Wis., to assume the responsibilities of director of choral activities and associate professor of music at the University of Wisconsin...