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DIED. Fania Fénelon, 75, singer in the all-female inmate orchestra at the Auschwitz death camp, who recounted her ordeal in the memoir Playing for Time; of a heart attack; in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France. Fénelon's 1976 book was made into a television movie four years later, with Vanessa Redgrave portraying Fénelon despite objections because of pro-Palestine Liberation Organization statements...
...there was a fine page of anecdotes about all the eccentrics who had passed through the newsroom since the days when Ben Hecht and Charlie MacArthur were working on that wonderful play. Editorial-Page Editor Charles Roper, who compiled the memoir, recalled that someone went berserk in the composing room one day and the police had to be summoned. The cops got off on the wrong floor, confronted the nearest writer, Bob Johnson, and said, "We understand you have a crazy man up here." Johnson waved an arm about the room and said, "Take your pick...
...films are argument enough for his place in movie history. With My Last Sigh, Buñuel allows himself to be seen in another light: as that most engaging of con artists, the raconteur. Reading the memoir is like spending a long, lazy afternoon in his presence. His voice never rises above a murmur. A small smile engages his face as he recalls some long-ago provocation that today scandalizes no one. Now and then he dozes. On one such afternoon this summer, Buñuel nodded off into immortality...
...Harvard this fall, Kim is attending the seminars of the Fellows Program and hopes to start work on two manuscripts. One is to be an analysis of Korea's internal politics and the other a memoir Kim has already published a collection of his letters from prison in Korean and Japanese: he hopes to have them translated into English...
...wonder that Limonov, who left Russia for the West in 1974, would notice such a distinction between cultures--for him, life is one big problem. It's Me, Eddie, Limonov's "fictional memoir" of a debauched, desperate Russian poet on welfare in New York City, was designed to shock the emigre community when it first appeared in 1974. Just translated into English, the book aims its bitter criticism at all the things that made Limonov's life miserable--that is, anything that can be cursed or sexually degraded. Naturally, his adopted homeland comes in for more than its fair share...