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...FORGET, FOR A MOMENT, THE NOTORIETY of SINEAD O'CONNOR. Imagine that the truculent Irish skinhead is a timid thrush at the back of a noisy saloon, addressing with a quavering intimacy pop standards associated with Billie Holiday (Gloomy Sunday), Peggy Lee (Why Don't You Do Right?), Sarah Vaughan (Black Coffee), even Doris Day (Secret Love). And she's not bad. O'Connor can exasperate on her new album, Am I Not Your Girl? -- she wails this phrase 26 times in one song and closes the set with a dark harangue against the Roman Catholic clergy. But these assaults...
Mitchell's reputation rests on four books: McSorley's Wonderful Saloon (1942), Old Mr. Flood (1948), The Bottom of the Harbor (1960) and Joe Gould's Secret (1965). They have been out of print for decades. But Pantheon Books has altered all that. Several years ago, the publishing house went through a convulsive change of management. Since then it has been the subject of intense debate and gossip. Could the new Pantheon survive under current business conditions? What kind of writers would it attract? If this anthology of Mitchell's best work is any indication, the publishers...
Straight from Nieman Marcus in Dallas, Murphy is the retail cowboy who has already turned over a few tables in the saloon...
Eddie Ross (Judd Hirsch) is a Manhattan Tevye circa 1936, railing at family, customers and God. The fury is understandable. Both sons are targets of anti- Semitic gangs. Racketeers want a piece of his saloon business. Worse still, Zaretsky (David Margulies), an aging star of the Yiddish theater, keeps informing him of the Holocaust engulfing Europe...
...ancestors make and lose many fortunes in Wales, America and Canada. A saloon-boy from deepest Wales becomes a well-to-do tailor, and the widow of a Major in the Revolutionary War must canoe up the Hudson River to safety in Canada...