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...Spain became fashionable: the campy fantasies of filmmaker Pedro Almodovar; the sunswept abstractions of painter Miguel Barcelo; the postmodern extravaganzas of architect Ricardo Bofill; the prankish sexiness of fashion designer Sybilla. Madrid promoted itself as the eye of a creative tornado known as la movida, whirling all night long. Novelist Camilo Jose Cela won the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature. "In the 1960s, we felt like second-class Europeans," says Juan Sanchez-Cuenca, director of the U.S.-affiliated advertising firm Bozell Espana. "In the 1980s we felt proud to be Spanish...
...BOTTOM LINE: By turns a lisping potentate and a nervy novelist, Al Pacino gives the season's foremost star turn...
...debut. One night he is a lisping, languorous biblical potentate, concealing deadly willfullness within a Bette Davis-like camp distraction, as King Herod in Oscar Wilde's Salome. The next night, in the new Chinese Coffee by the relatively unknown Ira Lewis, Pacino is a manic-depressive novelist-cum-doorman, living on the extreme margins of the arts world in Manhattan and dreaming that the next confessional, autobiographical manuscript will justify his colossal self-importance. The only thing the roles have in common is that both show off his grace with language, whether Wilde's shimmering, overripe, pseudo-antique prose...
Five hundred years after Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World, the fruits of Latin culture are very much on Fuentes' mind. Mexico's pre-eminent novelist is crisscrossing the U.S., Europe and Latin America to promote his new book, The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World. Published in April, the 399-page, lavishly illustrated volume is climbing best-seller lists from Washington to Los Angeles. Together with a five-hour television series that will be aired on the Discovery Channel in August, the book is Fuentes' answer to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation, which ignored the Spanish...
Tracing his life story from his undergraduate days at Amherst College as a struggling and oft-rejected writer to his current days of professional success, Turow explained how he had been able to reconcile the dreams of the novelist with the plans of a lawyer...