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...general tale of Vatican Ostpolitik has been told before, of course, in Norman Cousins' 1972 memoir and numerous other writings. Flamini draws on interviews with insiders and previously classified documents of the Vatican...
...author, woodcarver, schoolteacher, friend and student of Makah Indians, explorer, correspondent and collector for the Smithsonian, sketcher, hokumist, unsuccessful lover, misfit entrepreneur, and most of all, perpetual journal-scribbler. Whatever else he was, or wasn't, he unceasingly recorded the early Northwest. Winter Brothers is Seattleite Ivan Doig's memoir of his bloodbrotherhood with this remarkable pioneer via the millions of words he left behind...
...feisty little guy, a former boxer," says Actor Martin Balsam, 60. "If you wanted to cast a judge, you would never cast him." But you might very well cast Balsam, who will portray the Watergate justice in a TV-movie based on John Sirica's 1979 memoir To Set the Record Straight. After judiciously reviewing Balsam's credentials-as a juror in 12 Angry Men (1957) and a Washington Post editor in All the President's Men (1976)-and meeting in his chambers with the actor, Maximum John, 76, ruled him "a very good selection...
...MANY WAYS, STARDUST MEMORIES is just another bad showbiz memoir: Behind the scenes with Woody; On the set with Woody; In bed with Woody; Despair with a Woody; Death with Woody, chapter after chapter of intimate details, full of frustration with the medium, anger at the critics and fans, tempestuous words spilled over mundane problems. He does act--his life changes--but we never see the changes occur. He marks the passing of time by the various women who warm to his gentle nudging...
...Isaac Bashevis Singer, Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe and Susan Sontag. Di Capua has edited such acclaimed writers as Larry Woiwode and Michael Arlen. A major project now is the result of one man's highly unusual childhood. Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany is a forthcoming memoir by Joel Agee, son of the late film critic and novelist James Agee. In 1941, Agee and his wife Alma divorced. She took Joel, then a year old, to live...