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Like his father, novelist Kingsley Amis, the author courts the charge of misogyny. Modified misanthropy would be closer to the mark. Almost anything on two legs is fair game for the Amis blitz. Keith Talent reads like a composite of every cheating, pub-crawling lout that Amis has ever met, which is probably quite a few. A typical Talent day includes waking with a hangover, a round of serial adulteries and petty larcenies, then hours of whetting his dart skills at the Black Cross. A typical business transaction includes stealing a shipment of perfume and, when finding out that...
...Moscow, they were also inviting a conductor whom they had stripped of his citizenship in 1978 for "unpatriotic activity." So the Supreme Soviet last month voted to restore that citizenship. Rostropovich considered delaying his return until Solzhenitsyn was similarly exonerated. When he recently visited Solzhenitsyn in Cavendish, Vt., the novelist said he would not return until all his books were available in the Soviet Union. Even Rostropovich cannot consider a permanent return yet. He has concert commitments for at least two years, and also two American grandchildren, "so my first goal will be to go back on occasion...
Following Spider Woman will be works by, among others, songwriters Marvin Hamlisch and Jimmy Webb, novelist Erica Jong and playwrights Arthur Kopit, Marsha Norman and Peter Stone. Financial backers include Capital Cities/ABC, Columbia Artists Management and Jujamcyn, which owns five Broadway theaters. Investors have provided about a fourth of the first year's $10 million budget, with the balance projected to be earned in ticket sales, program advertising and merchandising...
...there is rarely any reason to believe that the target's successor will be more sympathetic to the gay cause. Nonetheless, some prominent gays favor forcing every closeted person to come out, holding that being gay is nothing to be ashamed of and that there is strength in numbers. Novelist Armistead Maupin, a leading gadfly of San Francisco's gay community, was one of the first to confirm Rock Hudson's homosexual life after Hudson announced he had AIDS, and in interviews Maupin has named many other entertainers, some of them married, whom he knows or believes...
Stefan Kanfer, a novelist (Fear Itself, The International Garage Sale) and TIME contributor, proves to be a robust and resourceful stand-up historian as he deftly tills familiar and unfamiliar ground: the first Jewish settlers who tried to farm the Catskills' stony soil; the hotel owners who hit pay dirt in chopped liver; singers and comedians such as Eddie Fisher, Danny Kaye and Sid Caesar, who got their starts on Borscht Belt stages; the gamblers who fixed interhotel basketball games and corrupted some of the best college players of the early 1950s; and, finally, the real estate developers...