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...does the movie version, with Robert Duvall as Tom and Robert De Niro as Des, proceed at the sluggish pace of a Sodality novena? Perhaps because Dunne's collaborator on the screenplay was his wife, the Empress of Angst, Novelist Joan Didion. Onscreen, characters who should percolate with rage simply simmer. Two exciting, dangerous actors have little to do: Duvall spends too much time pacing and waiting; De Niro's big scene has him hanging up his vestments...
John Irving, the successful American novelist, appeared at the Coop yesterday afternoon, where he autographed hundreds of copies of his current number-one bestseller, "The Hotel New Hampshire...
...punish Soviet readers for the crimes of the Soviet government," pleaded the venerable German literature scholar Kopelev, 69, who had come from West Germany for the exiles' party. He recalled that people had lined up for miles to attend the foreign book exhibitions in Moscow in previous years. Novelist Yuz Aleshkovsky noted that eager readers had actually stolen many of the Western books that were shown at the Moscow fair. Said he: "When I think about the Soviet government and its wardens for whom all these fairs are merely another propaganda show, I am all for the boycott...
...prospect of being a journalist first excited Oney in the early 1970's, when he read the writings of men like Tom Wolfe. Wolfe argued that in contemporary journalism, one could write on current events with the novelist's attention to craft. The discovery that journalism need not be dry "was kind of a mind-blower for me," Oney recalls. Besides, "I didn't want to be an English teacher--which is about the only other option for an English major unless you work for Bell Telephone or something...
...most raffish and fantastic crew that I have met yet and even I-excessively broadminded as I am-feel somewhat shocked by the goings-on." That was how Tennessee Williams described his Provincetown acquaintances in a letter to his friend, Novelist Donald Windham, in the summer of 1940. Now the playwright has returned to that scene. But somehow that raffish and fantastic crew has fled his memory, and the characters on the stage of Manhattan's Jean Cocteau Repertory would not shock a novitiate...