Word: memoire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...singular achievement of Cambodian Witness, a quiet, devastating memoir of this genocide, is to reveal the faces behind the numbing statistics and, more terrifying, to show how familiar they look. The fanatics who unleashed the bloodbath were usually, it seems, the people next door...
...olds take their own lives; in a single paragraph May laconically records the deaths of three of his siblings. Some of these horrors may seem almost routine to those who have seen the film The Killing Fields or read Molyda Szymusiak's The Stones Cry Out, a recently published memoir that covers much the same killing ground. Yet May is unusually sensitive to the monstrous ironies of a world turned inside out. While some peasants starved, others, suddenly allowed to eat, gorged themselves till they burst. Having outlawed all emotion and distinction, the Khmer Rouge found that they had also...
Michael has accepted a contract from little-known Zebra Books for a memoir titled From the Outside Looking In, concerning his distant relationship with his famous parents and stepmother. His literary agent, Scott Meredith, calls it a "very factual and very, very frank" account of being "adopted and then forgotten." Another publisher, however, describes it as "nasty" and "skewed." News of the younger Reagan's latest venture came as an unpleasant surprise to the White House. Said an aide to the President: "He hasn't black-sheeped us lately, but, apparently, he's back...
Perhaps part of the problem of Radio Days is that the film is, to such a large extent, entirely a product of Woody Allen. More than a fictionalized memoir, Radio Days is a tribute to Allen's work, to his friends, and to himself. This would be fine, except we have seen it all before: the indulgent self-references in Stardust Memories, the boyhood reminiscences in Annie Hall, and the constant cameos by personal friends in virtually everything he has ever done. The only thing he hasn't been able to reuse from his earlier films is their freshness...
WRITER MICHAEL HERR finished up his psychedelic memoir of the Vietnam War, Dispatches, with an odd chant: "Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, we've all been there." He was wrong. If it was anything like what is depicted in Oliver Stone's Platoon, we had no idea...