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AVALON. If gemutlichkeit were a Yiddish word, it would describe the tone that writer-director Barry Levinson aims for in this bustling memoir of his immigrant grandparents in Baltimore. But the family portrait is too soft- focus, and the residue is schmaltz...
...pages of other people's books, most of them written by his former dancers at New York City Ballet. One, Gelsey Kirkland's angry, vengeful Dancing on My Grave (1986), made the best-seller lists. This year brings a slight but more genial coda from Kirkland and the memoir the dance world has been waiting for, from Mr. B.'s last muse, Suzanne Farrell...
This is the Neal Cassady that beckons from his widow's memoir 22 years after his death in Mexico at the age of 42. That he survives Carolyn Cassady's recollections with some of the legend intact suggests not only that a successful con man sells what people want to buy but also that he must believe in the pitch himself. For the author, who was an adventuresome graduate of Bennington when she met Cassady in 1947, this meant that life could be more exciting than settling down with a guy named Bill. With a guy named Neal...
...think I'll get a job soon," says Krenz, 53, whose hold on power as Erich Honecker's successor lasted a mere seven weeks. Since his fall, Krenz has kept busy jogging near his home in Berlin, doing the family shopping and writing When Walls Fall, a personal memoir and an account of the last days of the old regime. While he was in a West German bookstore recently, an East German walked up and slapped him in the face. Some review...
WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE CAMPAIGN, MOMMY? Now You Know: The Personal Odyssey of Kitty Dukakis will not be published until September, but a number of Hollywood people, including Carol Burnett, have already inquired about movie or TV rights. One of Kitty's friends describes the memoir as "an unbelievably frank and honest personal story." The author discusses her struggles with drug and alcohol dependency, the Dukakises' prickly relationship with Jesse Jackson, and her sense of desolation at the loss of the 1988 election. The book does not disclose the couple's future plans, but there is speculation that...