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...tranquil, centered images that resembled stars or novas. One can see them as part of the same (now utterly defunct) fixation on the "spiritual" possibilities of outer space that tinged the culture of the day, whose big expression in film was Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey...
...night gab sessions. He also introduced the young trumpeter to writer Albert Murray, whose 1976 book, Stomping the Blues, was a seminal work on African-American music. Murray, now 74, took Marsalis to museums and bookstores and got him reading "everything from Malraux and Thomas Mann to the Odyssey and the Iliad." In particular, he filled him in on the life and works of Duke Ellington, whom Murray considers the "quintessential American composer...
...kind. Literary wide-bodies with plenty of plot that allow you to leave the real world in the first half paragraph and stay away through several flight-delay announcements. No-qual prose and cereal-box characters are customary, though an occasional lapse into good writing does no harm. The Odyssey and Moby Dick, both wide-bodies before their time, would have been perfect airport novels. Herewith a random grab of half a dozen new airporters, none written by Homer or Herman Melville...
WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE CAMPAIGN, MOMMY? Now You Know: The Personal Odyssey of Kitty Dukakis will not be published until September, but a number of Hollywood people, including Carol Burnett, have already inquired about movie or TV rights. One of Kitty's friends describes the memoir as "an unbelievably frank and honest personal story." The author discusses her struggles with drug and alcohol dependency, the Dukakises' prickly relationship with Jesse Jackson, and her sense of desolation at the loss of the 1988 election. The book does not disclose the couple's future plans, but there is speculation that...
...script called for blizzard scenes at a major airport. To film it, the entire cast and crew of this summer's Die Hard 2 embarked on a multimillion- dollar odyssey last December that led them to normally snowy Denver and northern Michigan. But relentlessly mild weather in both places forced 20th Century Fox to abandon its costly snow chase and shoot the sequel to the 1988 Bruce Willis thriller on a Los Angeles sound stage. As if that humiliation was not enough, the delays and moving expenses helped push the film's original $40 million budget to as high...