Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is the most successful commercial in history, and it's all done with amateurs," boasts Mickey Spillane, detective novelist and sometime pitchman for Miller Lite beer. Spillane concedes, however, that the high jinks that accompany the filming "would drive regular actors up the wall." Last week Spillane and pals gathered at a bowling alley in Teaneck, N.J., to shoot another of the award-winning spots. Those present included Comedian Rodney Dangerfield, Actress Lee Meredith, Boston Celtics President Red Auerbach, former Oakland Raiders Coach John Madden, ex-Baltimore Slugger Boog Powell and retired New York Jet Matt Snell...
...novelist this season is celebrity David Niven, whose new book is set in the high society that he knows best. Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly is composed of the stuff of which so many best sellers are made--but it may be just far enough between a Judith Krantz work and a serious novel to make it a tolerable gift...
...youths asking the usual hesitant questions of the starstruck. Does he remember a mutual friend? (Yes.) Does he still have a following in Europe? (He seems to remember, and cite, his every public reading scheduled within the past two years.) What younger poets does he like? (He mentions Punk Novelist Jim Carroll, Rock Singer Patti Smith and "a guy named David Pope in Grand Rapids, who doesn't get published...
...much about comrades as about lovers. Maureen Stapleton makes a flinty, domineering, humane Emma Goldman and, with just a hint of Bella Abzug brassiness, underlines Reds' straddling of two periods of American ferment: the late teens and the late '60s. As Reed's Soviet nemesis, Novelist Jerzy Kosinski acquits himself handsomely-a tundra of Russian ice against Reed's all-American fire...
...concluding her trilogy is that she must do so without her hero. In Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, Alexander the Not Yet Great and Alexander the Great held the spotlight and spurred the action. In Funeral Games it is his absence that motivates events. Yet the novelist-historian has done a fine job in focusing nearly half a century of chaos. Her prose, as usual, has an Attic clarity; her research is sound and her imagined scenes cenotaphs. Lacking the actual remains, they convey the unparalleled aura of Alexander and his time...