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Those lines have a ring as old as the novel itself, which was born as romantic kitsch for women when Samuel Richardson's Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded was published in 1740. But A Kiss From Satan was written this year and, even in the midst of a pornography boom, it and similar well-scrubbed (though timidly suggestive) paperbacks for women are spinning a new fortune for a Toronto-based publisher, Harlequin Enterprises. The firm's profits have more than tripled every year since 1970, and now stand at $1.6 million on revenues of $15 million. Harlequin, which...
...Widmerpool's wife Pamela, an elegant harpie who was visited upon him like a judgment in Powell's previous volume, Books Do Furnish a Room (1971), who now moves to center stage. As promiscuous and frigid as ever, she lends a macabre sexual touch to dreadful Widmerpool's international intriguing. She also ensnares Powell's two important new characters-Louis Glober and Russel Gwinnett...
...made man up from Jewish-immigrant slums, who takes a snippet of pubic hair from every woman he seduces. Gwinnett is a withdrawn, thirtyish academic, a descendant of Button Gwinnett, the first signer of the Constitution, who has a whiff of necrophilia in his makeup. Both are drawn to Pamela partly because of her infamous liaison (in Books Do Furnish a Room) with the late writer X. (for nothing, not for Xavier) Trapnel, the possible source of a film for Glober, a biography for Gwinnett...
...Night (the title is film maker's argot for photographing scenes in daylight to make them look like night) recounts the frustrations, compensations and intramural emotional crises of a crew on location in Nice to shoot a movie called Meet Pamela. "Shooting a film is like taking a stagecoach ride in the Old West," says the director (deftly played by Truffaut himself). "First you hope to have a nice trip. Then you just hope to reach your destination...
FranÇois Truffaut took notes on Day for Night for four years, jotting down stories he heard about film making or incidents that had happened in the past on his own sets. One of the many problems that plague the production of Meet Pamela-an insurance company balks at backing a skittish leading lady-came from a similar wrangle over Julie Christie when Truffaut was preparing Fahrenheit 451. A scene of a cat lapping milk off a breakfast tray, simple in conception but tortuous in execution because of a recalcitrant feline, had its origins in a similar sequence...