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That hasn't stopped some from trying. One of the class's celebrities (a group which includes the Governor of West Virginia, who couldn't spare four days off), novelist Erich Segal says he finds Harvard selling a bit too hard. The Harvard of his novel Love Story. Segal says, "was fiction. It was Shangri-la This is trying to make that fiction a reality. We've all come here to believe that fiction. The object is to make you cry, like my book, but you know what the difference is? Love Story costs you two dollars and 50 cents...
...prizes were determined by a jury headed by Novelist William Styron, who got the job in the course of the French government's conference on Creation and Development held last February in Paris. The award reflected a retreat to the ordinary concerns of cinema. Last year's Palme d'Or winners, Missing from the U.S. and Yol from Turkey, played like news bulletins from Third World battlegrounds. This year's winner, Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama, is a harshly elemental lyric about Japanese mountain folk that could have been made any time...
...Cannes, who contribute a third of the festival's $1.3 million annual budget and reap many more millions of tourist dollars. The gentry could be generous to films from abroad, including Martin Ritt's U.S. entry Cross Creek, a dewy-eyed swamp drama starring Mary Steenburgen as Novelist Marjorie Rawlings, and Carlos Saura's dance film, Carmen. But for the four French films in competition-Jean Becker's One Deadly Summer, Patrice Chereau's The Wounded Man, Jean-Jacques Beineix's The Moon in the Gutter and even Bresson's L'Argent...
...unionize than freelance writers: the very label conveys an aura of individualism, and many freelancers approach getting published less as a job than as a spiritual quest. But last week a fledgling National Writers Union framed a constitution and elected officers from among 1,500 dues-paying members, including Novelist Kurt Vonnegut and Journalist Studs Terkel. Said President Andrea Eagan, a feminist writer: "Without top names we would be like a baseball union without Reggie Jackson...
...that a coincidence? Is there something about the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library that stirs the groin of any novelist who confronts...