Word: mistressing
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...present could be hell. In The Time Traveller, a biography of Wells just published in England, he comes off as so sex-driven that no one woman could have held on to him. Not quite, disagreed one of the reviewers. Dame Rebecca West should know. She was Wells' mistress from 1912 to 1922 and is the mother of one of his sons, Novelist Anthony West. "As a general rule, it was he who was discarded," she wrote in the London Sunday Telegraph. A balky new fountain pen could quickly plunge him into a temper tantrum. "Scenes like this...
...Brown, the protagonist of Mark Harris' new novel, is a man who cannot even bring himself to exterminate a neighbor's annoying dog. Yet his mind is a charnel house of potential victims, executed because he thinks nearly everyone around him helped send his mistress's son to death in Viet Nam. Incurably infected by the anger and violence of the past decade, Brown fires off anonymous and threatening letters to presidents, neighbors, even chance acquaintances who displease...
...Even before I appear in Midland City, Dwayne Hoover is surrounded by quite a cast of characters. Harry LeSabre, his salesman, is a sometime transvestite who expresses his women's clothes fetish during Hawaiian Week at Dwayne Hoover's Exit Eleven Pontiac Village. Francine Pefko, Dwayne's mistress, thinks she is his mother. Bunny is Dwayne's homosexual son. There are more. These three are easily enough to strip the gears of any normally functioning machine...
...balding, "round, mahog insignificant-any-tanned [and] smiling." Somewhere in between, you will find Jesse Craig, the 48-year-old protagonist of Shaw's latest bestselling novel. Craig's last two films bombed for $8,000,000; his estranged wife has grown accustomed to his checkbook; his mistress may be getting bored with his body. So Craig does the only logical thing: he flees to the Cannes Film Festival to mend his fortunes...
...near, but this lyrical glimmer is not a way out for those still alive. Bergman's most recent film, in color, with brilliant cinematography by Sven Nykvist. 1972. The Naked Night. During a single day's action, we see the owner of an impoverished travelling circus and his mistress, the bare-back rider, each trying to betray the other. The film (whose original Swedish title means "The Clown's Evening") is Bergman's first masterpiece. Many people interpret it as being totally pessimistic, but its ending (the pair walking in silence alongside the caravan) and the memories of the clown...