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Easy Rawlins is a private citizen, not strictly speaking a private eye. He is also a black man. But these two significant--and dramatically potent--differences aside, novelist Walter Mosley's creation is the truest heir we have yet had to Raymond Chandler's immortal Philip Marlowe. And writer-director Carl Franklin's cool, expert adaptation of Devil in a Blue Dress, Mosley's first novel, evokes the spirit of '40s film noir more effectively than any movie since Chinatown...
...even closer to the people in the news, AOL subscribers can tune in to one of TIME's electronic press conferences. This week TIME Online will hold forums with novelist-screenwriter Richard Price (Clockers) and U.S. Senator Alfonse D'Amato. Friday night the guest will be Michael Crichton, this week's cover subject. "We try to make these conferences as interactive as possible by bringing not just the TIME journalists who cover the news but also the newsmakers themselves," says public affairs manager Nancy Kearney. "We think of it as news...
...doesn't please everyone. Critics complain he never lets plausible characters stand in the way of information; not much of a novelist but a hell of an educator. On the other hand, scientists have been known to say he saws the limb off behind him; no hotshot in the lab but a hell of a tap dancer with a word processor. Crichton is used to the charges. "Feeling conflicted, different, has been a fact of my life," Crichton told the Los Angeles Times. "Someone once compared me to a bat. 'Put a bat among birds,' he said, 'and they call...
...science right anyway. Like many of his earlier novels--from The Andromeda Strain, his killer-bacteria thriller that prefigured The Hot Zone by 25 years, to Jurassic Park--The Lost World is suffused with scientific detail that has clearly been lifted from the latest research journals. Yet as a novelist Crichton isn't bound by the usual caveats that academics are forced to issue; he can and does take the most speculative of theories and run with them as if they were proved...
DIED. OLGA IVINSKAYA, 83, longtime mistress of Russian novelist Boris Pasternak and inspiration for Lara, the heroine of his epic love story Doctor Zhivago; in Moscow...