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Uncle Tom's Cabin. The date was Feb. 13, but their luck was in. The first person they saw was an Italian peasant on a bicycle, a member of the Partisans, who led them to a house where they got a meal of noodles and pig's liver, met the tailgunner (picked up by another member of the local underground) and experienced their first bombing: some P-47s dive-bombed a nearby bridge. As days went by, Chappuis & Co. were moved from house to house, and village to village, towards the Swiss frontier. Once they walked right past...
...help Western Europe, but on a businesslike basis. A lot of U.S. money and goods had already been poured into Europe-more than $8.6 billion since war's end. The question was: How much good had it done? From now on Americans were not financing any charitable pig-in-a-poke. There was not going to be any WPA in Europe...
Although Magic Town is not worked out with much acuteness or grace, it views with a wholesome if very mild disapproval: 1) the overwillingness of many Americans to play guinea pig with their private lives; 2) their ugly and pathetic capacity for materialistic vanity; and 3) the ease with which affection and rust can be abused in dedication...
This is a book about Hollywood, which for an ordinary human being, or even for a pig, is a strange and terrifying place. The tone of disillusion and disgust very likely comes from Bemelmans' discovery that, aside from the glittering surface, Hollywood is nothing like prewar Paris, where he delighted in being gay rather than sarcastic, and sentimental rather than cynical. We see the giant Olympia Studio, where no man is happy, and the road to success is to keep one's month tightly shut and do no work. But Bemelmans makes no judgements; instead he tells the story...
...Dirty Eddie himself, he is an intelligent black pig who grows progressively smaller in the film of which he is the star. That is because the picture is filmed backwards, beginning with the end, and the pig is growing all the time. Actually Eddie is not very important, and does not make his appearance until the last third of the book. Bemelmans' rich sweetness carries the story along without the pig, winning the reader through a kind of hypnotic mastery. Witness the very beginning of "Dirty Eddie": "'Believe me," she said, "I know how to do it. Lean forward, darling...