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...crime. "Even if I get a guilty one off," he likes to say, "he is sufficiently punished when he pays me." After a rich old man named Jacques Mossier was found bludgeoned and stabbed to death in 1964 in Key Biscayne, Fla., his blonde wife Candace, 44, and her nephew and boy friend, Melvin Lane Powers, 22, were prime suspects, so they hired Foreman. If Candy and Melvin "got off without a day of pen time," says Foreman, she agreed to pay him $250,000, plus the appraised value of four parcels of Houston property she owned-a total...
...main conspirators in this book are Seneca and his nephew Lucan the poet. The two police officials keep passing along intercepted copies of letters between Seneca and Lucan, and the two writers keep hacking away at the question "What is a writer's responsibility?" Seneca says, "A writer cannot change the world; his duty is to describe it." Then there's the chief police official, Tigellinus, who says, "A writer has no responsibilities, for responsibilities are the burden of power. He is, at best, an entertainer, like that trained bear we saw nodding its head and catching apples...
...however, Italians can afford to buy cars, and they are swapping their Lambrettas for compact Fiats. In 1970. only 55,000 Lambrettas were sold compared with 180,000 a decade earlier. Faced with the realities of a stronger economy, the late Innocenti's son and nephew, who now run his company, have stopped production of the Lambretta in Italy but will keep a parts depot. They are arranging a deal with the Indian government and a Bombay company to move Lambretta production to India beginning in 1974. The Innocenti firm will have a minority interest in the operation...
...would never make another film rather than work with Preminger again. I don't think he could direct his little nephew to the bathroom." To which Preminger replies with a ferocious gleam: "Imagine how good her performance will be in her next film if her performance in this one was so brilliant with a bad director." He adds: "I didn't hire her to praise me; I hired her to give a good performance. And she did." Her next film, to be released in the U.S. in February: The Burglars, in which, to top her list of easy...
FIRE SERMON, by Wright Morris. An 82-year-old codger tries to save his eleven-year-old great-nephew's soul from the modern world during a symbol-paved journey in a trailer hitched to an ancient Maxwell...