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...1930s and '40s, when she reaped acclaim in such works as Broadway's A Doll's House (1937) and Hollywood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), then crested again in her 70s when she became a cult figure, especially for young people, in such offbeat films as Where's Poppa? (1970), Harold and Maude (1971) and, most notably, Rosemary's Baby (1968), for which she won a supporting actress Oscar; of a stroke; in Edgartown, Mass. Talented in many modes, she also wrote two hit plays in the 1940s (Over Twenty-One and Years Ago), a novel (Shady Lady...
...blow $100,000 betting on U.S. high school basketball games. Before they land, Bill has invited Mike to stay with the Atenabes, whose home sprawls over one-eighth of an acre in Tokyo. Mike is not one for making snap judgments, but the Atenabe clan is certainly unusual. Take Poppa Kobe, for example. He is being forced into retirement by a giant conglomerate, but not before an attractive female deprogrammer has been sent to squeeze everything he learned on the job out of his head. Then he can open a noodle shop, like all the other Japanese oldsters...
...partly in rebellion against his money grubbing father that Jamie refuses to make good and flaunts his habit of frequenting bars and beds of whores. In addition, Jamie resents Edmund, always "Momma's baby, Poppa's pet", who now show budding writing talent. Edmund, meanwhile, apart from suffering consumption, blames his very existence on his mother's drug addiction. To escape from their troubles, the men spend late hours drowning themselves in alcohol, while Mary glides about smothered in morphine, dreamily praying to the Blessed Virgin as she did as a schoolgirl...
...hero of Author Larry Woiwode's third novel is Ned O'Rourke, an aging actor who has spent twelve years playing a lovable, Bible-quoting old coot named Poppa John on a TV soap opera. For reasons not entirely clear, the producers have killed off Poppa John, the show's most popular character. It is now the Christmas season, and Ned, despite all those years of six-figure salaries, is suddenly worried about how to scratch together $200 for the January rent on his Manhattan apartment. He has become too famous as Poppa John to get other...
...evidence of What I'm Going to Do, I Think (1969) and Beyond the Bedroom Wall (1975), Larry Woiwode is a writer worth listening to. Poppa John offers a great deal of noise and the whisper of a fine short story: an old man struggles to accept the long-ago death of his father, in preparation for facing his own. The novel's power lies here, at several removes from the small screen...