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Managers and salesman at the Harvard Coop and at the collegiate supermarkets of Columbia, Brown, Wellesley, Stanford, and others, say this is due to today's conservative youth who buy more traditional products...
Hannah may come from the wilds of Davey Jone's Locker but Rosanna Arquette in DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (Dunster House) hails from far less civilized terrain--New Jersey. A frustrated suburban housewife of a swimming pool salesman. Arquette goes on a spiritual quest after Susan, a debauchedly primal nymphet played by the debauchedly primal Madonna. Dewitt thinks there is something inherently fishy about equating nature and primal being with a rock star whose love handles are as big as her breasts, but the film nonetheless satisfies the teen viewer's instinctive need to have his lifestyle of Fritos and junk...
...persona helped revitalize boxing's once flagging popularity." After leaving the confessional, Cosell offers a scrapbook of his favorable reviews in newspapers and magazines to counter the "literary pogrom against me." The sad fact is that this wheedling self-inflation is unnecessary. Cosell was a tough-minded and honest salesman who could persuade sports fans to buy just about anything. As his book proves, he just stayed too long in the toy department...
...books have been optioned over the years by moviemakers, but none of Saul Bellow's works have ever made it to the screen. The first exception will be Seize the Day. Bellow's tragicomic 1956 novella about the decline and foibles of a Manhattan salesman is now being made into a TV movie for PBS in New York City. The film, being produced by former Princeton students of Bellow's, has delighted the author, and last week he visited the set to make a cameo appearance walking down a hotel corridor past his hapless protagonist, Tommy Wilhelm, played by Robin...
...films had not been preserved, Welles' trim exuberance would not have so cuttingly mocked the Falstaffian corpulence of his maturity. One generation knows him as the brilliant light that Hollywood failed and as the guy Rita Hayworth married before Aly Khan. Another generation thinks of him as a wine salesman, ballast at a Dean Martin Roast table and butt of Johnny Carson's "fat" jokes, all of which he bore with wounded dignity. Welles' premature burial in the flesh of his profligacy and self-destruction needs to be mourned. But it is helpful to recall that his life...