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...week ago he had been giving evidence . . . as a witness for the Prosecution. His expert field was the identification and valuation of non-ferrous scrap metal . . . It must have been at about that time, I think, that he began his remarkably long career as an embezzler." The failed playwright remembers his debut: "After the first act I wanted very much to leave." A colleague gives him "the job of editing a disastrous manuscript he had just received from one of his red-brick university dons. The subject of the book was Clear Thinking...
...mother, whose 36-year-old playwright son "disappeared" in 1976 because three years earlier he had sublet his apartment to a stranger who turned out to be an alleged guerrilla, wrote in her diary: "For a mother, hope never dies...No matter how tired and disappointed, the will to fight increases with every defeat...
...living couple in a Texas motel. Each story involves an uncanny mix of eroticism and terror; each is an instance of headlong narrative. Barker, already celebrated in Britain, is about to surface in the U.S. with demonic force. The world may be ready for a combination of playwright, illustrator, film director and writer, but can it accept his eerie resemblance to Paul McCartney...
...seeking solace in the bed of a society hostess while his wife is seven months pregnant. But nobody said life or art had to be fair. Only true and painful and funny. In its wicked, lopsided way, Heartburn fills the bill. "Love's something you fall in," wrote Playwright Terry Johnson. For Heartburn to work, the moviegoer must fall in love with Mark, as Rachel does, then fall out with a crash. So why are these opposites attracted to each other? Not because Rachel is a food writer and Mark is a Washington columnist. But because, up there...
...this is 1986, when women on screen have been liberated from goddess-hood and turned into grunts. So Sigourney Weaver -- actor, playwright, bonne vivante, gun-control activist and, at a sensational 5 ft. 10 1/2 in., just possibly the world's most beautiful tall smart woman -- is striding toward stardom in her Marks & Spencer underwear and shouldering enough artillery to keep Caspar Weinberger happy till next Thursday. Aliens, indeed; has anyone thought of starring her in a movie called Humans...