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Longtime Companion begins as a memoir of those heady days -- they may literally be called gay -- when everyone was strong and supple, when partying was a kind of performance art, when promiscuous sex was both a political declaration and a fashion statement. It is the summer of '81. Sean (Mark Lamos) and David (Bruce Davison), a middle-aged couple, watch a hunky guy stroll past them on a Fire Island beach, and their toes curl with wry pleasure. But a New York Times story about a newly discovered condition afflicting homosexual men has the gentle revelers wondering...
...sick and have Molly Haskell at the bedside. This memoir by the former film critic for Vogue traces the life and near death of Haskell's husband Andrew Sarris, film critic of the Village Voice, who is felled by a mysterious virus and confined to New York Hospital for six months. Blessed with a remarkable gift for clarity and self-reflection, Haskell uses Sarris' illness as a lantern by which she can shine a light on the dark corners of her life: her father's early death; what it is like to be married to an acknowledged expert...
While The Murderers Among Us had a clear thesis, coolly pursued, Wiesenthal's new memoir rambles through whole chapters on such marginal topics as whether Hitler had syphilis. And like some other memoirists in their 80s, Wiesenthal has lots of scores that he wants to settle. He is angry not only at all the ex-Nazis and all the authorities who have sheltered them in Germany, Austria, Latin America and the Middle East but also at the U.S. for recruiting killers like Klaus Barbie for cold war intelligence, and at the Soviets for all their political crimes...
Wiesenthal also criticizes Israeli secret-service chief Isser Harel, whose memoirs did not mention Wiesenthal's contributions to the capture of Eichmann. (The story of that raid is vividly told in a new memoir by the actual capturer, Eichmann in My Hands, by Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stein, to be published in May by Warner Books.) Other Wiesenthal targets include former Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, a Jewish Socialist, for including four ex- Nazis in his first Cabinet, and Elie Wiesel, for not including a Gypsy on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council...
...Waters' teen musical is set in 1954, just before Ike gave way to Elvis. Waters, a genially deranged raconteur, has been inching toward Hollywood since making his rep decades back with scrofulous comedies (Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos) from the Baltimore underground. His big-studio debut is a gaudy, affectionate memoir of his youth, when Drapes (punks) and Squares rumbled for the heart of a girl named Allison (perky Amy Locane). Waters' hole card is Johnny Depp, the winsome tough from TV's 21 Jump Street, who radiates big- screen grace and swagger as Cry-Baby -- no easy trick, since...