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...been a monster few months, what with all the meetings he's been taking. Winkler has talked to Brillstein-Grey, the producers of The Sopranos, about creating a television show; hung with Ron Howard in the Grinch's cave on the set of How the Grinch Stole Christmas; and listened to a pitch from some folks at Universal who are interested in having him make a film based on his characters. Also, Adam Sandler just slipped him a small role in his next picture. How did Winkler, a struggling 35-year-old freelance animator, get here? One word: doodie...
...theatrical ground--not even for the pyramid, whose only remnant is a laser triangle glimpsed briefly in the second act. But on its own terms, Aida is a big, bright, ingeniously staged show that--not going too far out on a limb here--should be Broadway's next monster...
...Kiernan's book teems with a splendid cast of characters--starting with McCarthy's Partisan Review crowd of the 1930s and '40s (Philip Rahv, William Phillips, Delmore Schwartz and Dwight Macdonald), then widening to include other figures in McCarthy's busy, contentious life, including Wilson, whom she called "the monster," her unexpected soul mate Hannah Arendt and dozens of gifted walk-ons, such as Robert Lowell and Isaiah Berlin. And of course there is McCarthy's archenemy, Lillian Hellman. In a taped interview with Dick Cavett, first aired in 1980, McCarthy said, with only slight hyperbole, that "every word...
...describing McCarthy's life, Kiernan interrupts her narrative constantly in order to quote, at length, dozens of witnesses who knew her. The technique represents a gamble; it has produced a monster of nearly a thousand pages. But it works...
...expresses a monotheistic religious faith: "Almighty God rules over mankind/and always has." But the characters in the poem behave according to a moral code in which loving one's enemies and hoping to be redeemed in heaven figure not at all. As Beowulf prepares to fight his second monster, he announces his credo: "It is always better/to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning./For every one of us, living in this world/means waiting for our end. Let whoever can/win glory before death. When a warrior is gone,/that will be his best and only bulwark...