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...lively polemical style, he discusses the composer's works with greater understanding and clarity than any previous biographer. And whereas many have recycled the same erroneous, often damaging information, Walker has relied on his own prodigious, globe-trotting research, a project spanning 25 years. The result is a textured portrait of Liszt and his times without rival...
...then should care that the DTV B movies may be lumbering from obscurity into oblivion? We do. There may be no masterpieces (possibly excepting John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, which achieved theatrical notoriety after release on video), but DTVs offer a few nostalgic pleasures. They are made by clever craftsmen who for next to nothing provide professional gloss and a story no worse than most movies and TV shows. And if you're looking for strong B-movie stars, look no further. Shannon Tweed brings a sensible, almost schoolteacherish seriousness to her roles. Delia Sheppard (Mirror...
Together, the plays and books paint the fullest portrait yet of an artist whose vision of human existence as a painful, poignant marking of time between the crib and the crypt helped define our world view in the atomic age. In doing so, they correct the canard that Beckett's work is boring, mired in gloom; the Gate pieces were darkly funny and passionate. And they reveal Beckett, who may seem so forbidding and remote as to be of another species, as a stoic but gentle man, a hero of the French Resistance and a generous soul--he once impulsively...
...presidential library, no biographer until now had chosen to focus so explicitly on the relationship between the fun-loving, womanizing John Kennedy and the more aloof Jackie--perhaps no one dared do so until Jackie was safely in her grave. But though both Christopher Andersen's Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage (Morrow; $24) and Edward Klein's All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy (Pocket Books; $23) purport to be about the marriage, what they are mainly about is sex, sex, sex--with the emphasis on extramarital...
...less-than-brilliant criminal who never returned the Gambinos to the profitable glory days of life under Don Carlo and Big Paul. Leave reality out of it though, and Gotti, with grand performances by Assante, Forsythe, and Anthony Quinn as the don's mentor Aniello Dellacroce, is fine portrait-of-a-thug drama...