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...Final Club by Geoffrey Wolff -- Class warfare at Princeton during the 1950s. Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman -- Fictional characters caught up in the factual bombing of Move headquarters by Philadelphia police in 1985. Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee -- South Africa, with cancer as a metaphor for apartheid. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike -- Harry Angstrom hops offstage, perhaps to meet his maker. The Further Inquiry by Ken Kesey -- The head Prankster rerolls the legendary cross-country bus trip. Tender by Mark Childress -- For the character Leroy Kirby, read Elvis Presley. Orrie's Story by Thomas Berger -- The author...
Giving away the ending of a movie or novel is considered very bad form. But for weeks Manhattan's literary gossip has been twittering with the news that John Updike's Rabbit at Rest, which will be published in October, concludes with the death of its hero. What's more, Updike himself has been fueling this story, both in a June speech at the American Booksellers' Association convention in Las Vegas and in the New York Times Book Review. How to explain all this fuss about the fate of an imaginary character? Well, Harry C. ("Rabbit") Angstrom first appeared...
...least three other animated shows are in the works for prime time, each hoping to duplicate the success of the Fox network's surprise hit The Simpsons. In theaters, the big box-office numbers rolled up by such films as The Little Mermaid and Who Framed Roger Rabbit have inspired a burst of activity. This summer has already seen a movie version of The Jetsons and a rerelease of Disney's The Jungle Book. Opening this weekend is DuckTales: The Movie, based on Disney's hit TV cartoon series. Due out later this year: The Rescuers Down Under, also from...
Even the long-neglected theatrical short is making a comeback. Disney has resurrected Roger Rabbit in two cartoon shorts (the latest, Roller Coaster Rabbit, is being shown this summer with Dick Tracy). Warner Bros. is about to release its first new Bugs Bunny cartoon in 26 years, and Disney is readying a Mickey Mouse featurette for later this year. Meanwhile, the American Multi- Cinema theater chain has begun showing old Looney Tunes shorts in all 1,700 of its movie houses. "For the past two decades I thought of animation as a desert," says Spielberg. "Suddenly what was a mirage...
...form as a master of human interaction. He has elevated eye contact and hand gestures to an art form, using both not just for emphasis but also for nuance: a little wink when he wants his listeners to join him in a smile, a rabbit chop or a wagging finger when he wants them to remember who is boss. His probing, dark brown eyes are constantly scanning his listeners, looking by turns stern, quizzical, amused, playful. When eyes meet, they both challenge and hint at shared confidences. Whatever lies nearby -- a fountain pen, a gray glasses case from a Paris...