Word: morningstar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Patricia Welles is the pen name of Marjorie Morningstar-well, not quite, but almost. It disguises Patricia Kanter-man of Detroit, who, divorced and 33, seems far removed from the hippie scene. Her leading character undoubtedly was an adolescent in the '50s who thought that the Tennessee Waltz was George and swooned over Johnnie Ray before the author updated her hangups to the '60s. Nothing mishugah about that: Babyhip has already earned $100,-000 in movie and paperback deals...
...thespian talents. It is be hoped that the Lampoon will take advantage of the visit by presenting, from its vast, library of movie, grants, some of Miss Wood's finest hours for the benefit of the Harvard community. Included among these we would suggest her classic ingenue as Marjorie Morningstar or at the very least her tasteful and deeply felt rendering of Gypsy Rose Lee's admirable career. Her sportsmanship in visiting the Poon has certainly improved since she pushed Tony Curtis in the drank in Sex and the Single Girl. But then again, Miss Wood has come a long...
...delicious promise of enchantment-as every reader knows who ever pored over the frontispiece chart in Treasure Island. Novelist Herman Wouk knows the pull of that enchantment. Six years ago, he fled the Manhattan theatrical and literary world, scene of his last two books (Youngblood Hawke and Marjorie Morningstar), and took his family to live in the Virgin Islands. His new novel, set in the Caribbean, begins enticingly with...
...when he remarked of Jack Kerouac's work: "That's not writing, that's typing." Novelist Nelson Algren was unable to goad either Sloan Wilson or Herman Wouk into a full-dress feud when he wrote: "If The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit married Marjorie Morningstar on my front porch at high noon, I wouldn't bother to go to the wedding...
...victim is Thomas Wolfe. Wouk, respected as the storyteller of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar, widely praised as the sober man of good will who wrote This Is My God, has dismembered Wolfe and used the pieces to put together his novel's author-hero. This is not the same thing as drawing a fictional portrait of Wolfe. Wouk is not interested in Wolfe's life, except as a scenario for a searching inquiry into the agonizing problems of authorship (taxes, how to get the highest bid for movie rights, etc.). Wolfe's autobiographical novels proved...