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...table of the family's New York City apartment and talked his father into bankrolling Melody, a movie based on that script. He skipped summer camp and went to London to make tea and run errands for the filmmakers. Puttnam, the producer, remembers him wearing the same tie-dyed shirt and jeans every day. "He was very bright, incredibly tenacious and learned very fast -- a very decent kid who has never been short with his opinions. He was absolutely determined to do things on his own." Edgar Jr., who acquired the nickname "Efer" -- he even named a company Efer Productions...
...speaks in tones as courtly as those of the English Baroque composer whose anthems he had clamped to his ears. At 75, wire-thin, white-haired and dressed in his working uniform of gray suit, white shirt and red tie, he more than ever fits Russell Baker's description of him as "the wise Episcopal bishop." Raised in a distinguished Old South family fallen on hard times, Kempton might be describing himself when he writes of the civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph: "His only vanity is his manners...
Being the very friendly person I am, I walked over to chat. I knew that I too, could intersperse a foreign language with my own and think it was "cool." As I approached them, I noticed that one of them was wearing a "Jurassic Park" t-shirt, another was wearing a Chicago Bulls cap and a third was wearing a pair of New York Yankees sweatpants...
Although "Naked in New York" has a talented cast, and is artsy in the latest sort of surreal-random style (and with-it enough to make fun of traditional black-shirt despairing types of artsyness) a layer of superficiality suffocates the film, rendering it tiresome...
...incapable of writing a really dull page. The author has a splendid ability to characterize his subjects. He reminds us, for example, that Washington was as accomplished an autodidact as Lincoln and that the famous portraits of the Father of our Country as an unsmiling, po-faced stuffed shirt do an injustice to someone whose contemporaries thought him the livest of wires, even in a room with the likes of Franklin and Jefferson...