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...York Times, Coppola turned One From the Heart from a potential loser into the year's first big media event. This Friday night, thousands of the movie-mad and the just plain curious will crowd into the Music Hall to watch this world-class shaman pull a rabbit-or a dog-out of his hat. "It's a brilliant move," marvels Writer-Director Paul Schrader (American Gigolo). "If it's a hit he can wipe out a year of bad publicity...
FICTION: The Age of Wonders, Aharon Appelfeld ∙ A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone ∙ Funeral Games, Mary Renault ∙ The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving ∙ Memoirs of a Space Traveler, Stanislaw Lem ∙ Rabbit Is Rich, John Updike
...Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike. The third adventure of Rabbit Angstrom finds the ex-jock older, thicker around the middle, but still faithful to his love affair with the fading American dream...
...offering $1 a share more than U.S. Steel. As a result, more than enough investors are willing to sell their shares to the steel company for the $125 it offered to give it controlling interest. Said a Wall Street banker involved in the negotiations: "Unless Mobil can pull a rabbit out of the hat, it will lose...
...America's conspicuous consumers, paperbacks just won't do. Despite the rising prices, hard-cover books remain plentiful and popular. A bunch of fine works indicate why. The fall novels by John Updike and Irving--Rabbit is Rich and The Hotel New Hampshire, respectively--continue to ring up big sales months after their releases. Of course, these books were virtually insured of popularity, being descendants of previous block-busters--Updike's American Rabbit Angstrom and Irving's macabre writing about writers and bears...