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...character of Larry is, if possible, even more stereotypical. He hovers over each scene like a one-man Greek chorus. "While it's happening, I see the humor of it all," Larry tells Sarah after his mother's first visit to his Village apartment. And when he heads out for ultimate success on Sunset Boulevard, the tenderest thing he can tell his tearful Mama is "You're a funny lady, Ma." Larry did not need New York to corrupt him; detachment and glib posturing must have come easily to him even before he bought his first authentic-looking French beret...
Perly Dunsmore is an auctioneer with the suave, hypnotic ease of a political campaigner. Settling into the little New Hampshire town of Harlowe, he begins his auctions with a benefit for the one-man police force. But he is not in town for charitable purposes. Before long, the townspeople's most precious possessions-including, eventually, children-fall under Dunsmore's hammer. Wisps of evil drift through the book, perceived through the eyes of the Moores, a proud old farming family. "You'll pay worse if you try to say no," warns Mim Moore. "Somebody-some head...
...movies he goes off on solitary searches for some other kind of fulfillment. His eight-year marriage to Actress Livia Giampaolo raises as many doubts as it solves problems; his two young sons are a puzzlement as well as a joy. He has tried to paint, and had a one-man show of his abstracts in Milan that was successful. "Giancarlo," says Job, "has tried painting and come back...
Pacific Overtures culminates two lifelong love affairs for Boris Aronson, one with painting (he will soon hold his tenth one-man show), and the other with the prints and toys of Japan. To prepare for Overtures, Boris collected Japanese kites (a large black kite is used on the opening curtain). He studied the way Japanese wrap things; bamboo structures, for example, are held together by wrapping them in reeds or rattan. He also collected Japanese fans and Japanese prints of Perry's warships. In his cliffside home overlooking the Hudson River located near the town of Nyack, N.Y., Aronson...
ANDREW GOLD (Asylum; $6.98). From the opening cut, That's Why I Love You, through nine more original songs, Gold's fresh melodic imagination never wavers. His baritone is light and pleasing. Like Stevie Wonder, he sometimes operates as a one-man band. On Love Hurts...