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...takes exception to the Hellman memoir. "A very great accomplishment of fictionalization," she calls it. In particular, she points to Miss Hellman's great distinction between taking the First and Fifth Amendments before the House Un-American Activities Committee, finding the First preferable because it rejects the very right of the committee to ask its questions. Mrs. Trilling says that from reading Miss Hellman's book, it sounds as if she actually pled the First Amendment. In fact, what she did was offer to plead the First, Trilling says, and when the committee refused to accept it, pled the Fifth...
Domestic and political oddities abounded in the Nixon White House, at least as recalled by Ehrlichman, 56, in his third book, Witness to Power. The catty memoir will not be in bookstores until next month, but newsworthy tidbits began surfacing last week after the publisher, Simon & Schuster, sent advance galley proofs to 22 friends and journalists who might supply prepublication blurbs...
What to make of this slice of American pie, this pastoral adagio, this memoir-nightmare? Writer Wittliff has drawn the film's setting and tone from his childhood in a small Texas town off the gulf. Nita Longley (Sissy Spacek), a divorced woman with two sons, works in an isolated house as the town's switchboard operator. She meets a fresh-faced sailor (handsomely played by Eric Roberts); there is a tender affair, another man (Sam Shepard), a pair of resentful layabouts, an abrupt slash of melodrama. Except for the denouement, Raggedy Man proceeds with the even pace...
...later commemorated in the novel The Disenchanted) and wrote several film classics, including On the Waterfront and A Face in the Crowd. Today neither Benjamin Percival ("B.P.") Schulberg nor his son Budd is precisely a household-or Hollywood-name. But that odd obscurity is what lends Budd's memoir Moving Pictures its poignance and fascination...
...beasts. Today it's also dogs, cats, parakeets. And hamsters. I don't like to treat them; they bite." After one decade of practice, Herriot had compiled enough material to fill a book. After 30 years, he had enough for a library. But he never attempted a memoir until his wife informed him that people over 50 simply didn't become writers...