Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exalted motive than profit. This follow-up to last year's surprise hit Romancing the Stone reunites Stars Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, sends them off to an Arab emirate, then gives them nothing to do but market their charisma. In the first film, Turner intoxicated as a drab novelist who blossomed into a spunky heroine; here, she is fighting only celebrity veg-out. Mark Rosenthal and Lawrence Konner's plot, which amounts to a series of enforced aerobic exertions, matches the two funsters with a cartel of shifty Arabs and a tribe of gullible black Africans...
DIED. Robert Graves, 90, idiosyncratic, prolific British man of letters who considered himself foremost a poet but who was also a biographer, critic, translator and editor and is probably best known as a historical novelist, most memorably for I, Claudius (1934), a rich reconstruction of Roman life that became a hit mini-series in 1976; in Deia, Majorca, Spain. Graves began publishing his precise, sensuous lyrics while an officer in World War I, during which he was seriously wounded; he recounted that part of his life in the popular autobiography Goodbye to All That (1929). Among his most controversial works...
...most important thing an aspiring student novelist can do is sustain a piece of fiction of that length, "Leland says...
...literal debate about what duties affluent nations owe to the impoverished masses of the Third World. The contestants are an idealistic young left-wing journalist (Zeljko Ivanek) who argues that the prosperous West must hand over money and power and expect no deference in return, and a lordly novelist (Roshan Seth), Indian by birth but British by choice. He replies that Third World cultures, economies and politics must ripen over time, and that the most the older nations can do to help is to set a rigorous example. The setting for this ambitious exchange is a world conference on hunger...
...deeper understanding, Hare lampoons his argument in dopey scenes from the putative movie and shifts toward melodrama in more elegant but equally sentimental scenes for the "actual" characters. In the most implausible sequence, an American actress offers herself as the prize to the "winner" of the debate between the novelist and the journalist. Even after this conscious retreat from political complexity, Map remains lively and provocative. Yet it leaves a viewer with the sad sense that its author shrank from the dangers of attempting a genuinely great play...