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...Shepherd, 35, has been moonlighting off the set. She earned critical plaudits for her steamy performance as Eula in this month's TV production of The Long Hot Summer. She plans to record a new album (adding to three not very successful earlier ones) and hopes to produce a screenplay she co-wrote. Juggling all that and a six- year-old daughter "ain't easy," she says, but "it feels great...
SCHLOCK IS A MISUNDERSTOOD art, especially in the hands of Mordecai Richler, Montreal novelist and author of the screenplay for the new film, Joshua Then and Now. After the following hatchet job, I daresay you'll agree...
...JOSHUA'S DIFFICULTIES go way back. Richler bases his screenplay on his novel by the same name, something he did before more plausibly and palatably Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. But the novel itself is not that good to begin with. Not Richler's best work, it is a provincial rendition of the self-hating Jewish man's odyssey, his archetypal pursuit of the elusive non-Jewish woman (subtley known as the shiksa...
...stupidity of the concept itself should be credited to Jack Finney, whose novel Marion's Wall was the basis for the screenplay...
...artsy Soho 'walk-up to one of her staring out of the window in a mental ward after the first of many nervous breakdowns. Scrubbed of all make-up and eroded with rivers of tears, Streep's pinched expression carries more punch in this one scene than Hare's screenplay does in the entire film...