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Isaac Geldhart (Ron Rifkin), the head of a family publishing house, loves the very bookness of books--their smell, new or old, and the texture of fine paper, on which is written witness to a century of atrocity. But the public may want a sexy novel more than The Architecture of the Holocaust. Anyway, that's the belief of Isaac's grown children (Tony Goldwyn, Sarah Jessica Parker, Timothy Hutton), who wrest control of the house from their father. Soon after, Isaac lapses into a madness that estranges him from the world as fully as from his family...
...moviemaker, and Baitz has cushioned Isaac's fall with a final reconciliation. But Baitz has also expanded his play to give Isaac room to parade his obsessions. A familiar tragedy is made potent by the value of the gift withdrawn: Isaac, whose life is his mind, is losing it. Rifkin sees the majesty in Isaac's madness; he soars as he declines. In an era when films reduce the aged to comic cranks, Rifkin is heroic--the Lear of grumpy...
...that we realize that AIDS is not a homosexual problem, not a United States problem, not a developing countries problem, not an IV drug users' problem and not a "people with bad morals" problem. It is a problem. A human problem. We are all living with HIV. Scott A. Rifkin...
Rivals hoped the episode would strike a blow to the resurgent William Morris Agency, because movie stars, notoriously insecure, don't like to think their agents would even consider changing vocations. Competitors mocked Rifkin for making himself vulnerable by acknowledging that he had been in talks with Sony without a deal in hand...
...after the Sony meeting, Rifkin told associates that he had signed a new, long-term agreement with William Morris, and allies rallied behind him. "He was honest, honorable and forthcoming in a way in which nobody in Hollywood has the guts to be anymore," said DreamWorks partner Jeffrey Katzenberg. Stallone praised Rifkin, and a source close to Willis and Glover says they too will remain with him. Rifkin, known for psychospeak, was philosophical. "I feel as though I've journeyed to a place and I've come back stronger and wiser...