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...erotic provocations, but priceless as expressions of a true movie original. DIED. NIGEL NICOLSON, 87, British biographer, publisher and ex- M.P. who preserved the literary legacy of the Bloomsbury group, notably that of Virginia Woolf; in Sissinghurst, England. His best-known work, Portrait of a Marriage - based on a memoir by his mother, novelist Vita Sackville-West, found after she died in 1962 - chronicles his parents' devoted, if unconventional union. DIED. EDWARD LARRABEE BARNES, 89, architect whose functional houses and skyscrapers represented a humane approach to the sleek Modernist style; in Cupertino, California. A proponent of simplicity in design...
...twenty years, Art Spiegelman has returned to comix, generating the same excitement among the comixcenti as Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick's long-delayed final film brought to cinephiles. Though Spiegelman's name may not be as well known to the general public as Kubrick's, his 1986 Holocaust memoir Maus, featuring cats as Nazis and mice as Jews, remains the most recognized graphic novel ever published. In spite of this, Spiegelman became, as he says in the introduction to his new book, "like some farmer being paid not to grow wheat," writing essays and doing cover...
...whether Ko's death might dent her children's succession chances and improve the odds that Kim Jong Nam will reclaim his spot as No. 1 son. In the meantime, it's anyone's guess what impact Ko's death might have on Kim Jong Il. According to a memoir by a former sushi chef in the Dear Leader's household, Kim fell into a severe depression while Ko was being treated in France for cancer a decade ago. As the international community has learned through bitter experience, dealing with Kim when he's on an even keel is hard...
...home; Mum wants to stay. As the family heads for the ship that will return them to England, she impulsively grabs Martin and leaps from the car. Gweilo is artfully shy of detail about what comes next, and sadly there will be no sequel. So this sunny, luminous memoir?along with the three forthcoming children's books the dying Booth also completed?will have to serve as his epitaph, ensuring that he will remain forever young...
...look for anything morose here, however. Gweilo is sometimes a bit novelistic for a memoir, but it is alive with delight in the new. The boy's golden hair is considered lucky by the Chinese, who cannot resist touching it. "I was a walking talking talisman," he writes. This, plus his status as a gweilo ("ghostly man," or Caucasian), allows him to walk undeterred into Hong Kong's brothels and opium dens to befriend coolies, Triad gangsters and the real-life model for Hiroshima Joe. Perhaps Booth's biggest coup is talking his way into Kowloon Walled City, a notorious...