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The title on the door says Associate General Counsel. But it is no secret around TIME that lawyer Bob Marshall is actually a major league baseball player manque. Instead of his business card, he is likely to hand you his baseball card, a souvenir of the "fantasy" session he attended...
The 32-year-old auteur (She's Gotta Have It, School Daze) must be enjoying his prominence as the angry young man of the don't-worry, be-happy '80s. Of all the blacks who have strutted through the studio door that Eddie Murphy kicked down, Lee is the one...
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, Kennan is imprisoned by the Nazis. Released, he goes on to serve in Portugal, London and then, as the war winds down, the Soviet Union. In the early days, the writer regards the country less as a diplomat than as a romantic novelist manque. Leningrad is...
Because Japan's network of dealers is not nearly so large or aggressive as the mob of smart hucksters selling paintings in New York City and London, only a handful of painters manage to make a living from their art. Many turn to editorial and advertising work. They may be...
Gary Oldman looks spookily like Joe, with that puckish smile that told the world, "You want me to get away with it." Vanessa Redgrave has, and deserves, many of the best lines as Orton's sardonic agent. Bennett's script is a mine of epigrams and a model of construction...