Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That feeling struck TIME Correspondent Thomas McCarroll the day he set out for a luncheon interview with William Simon at the financier's summer home on Long Island. It took McCarroll 75 minutes just to get off Manhattan Island. Then he found himself on an expressway covered with what seemed like "a million cars. By the time I reached Simon's home, he couldn't do the interview," says McCarroll. "I apologized profusely, blamed the traffic and apologized some more." Simon rescheduled the interview, but McCarroll's useless round trip, which should have taken four hours, consumed more than seven...
BROADWAY BOUND. Joan Rivers acts? Yes, and she does just fine as the mother in Neil Simon's subtle, thoughtful and funny look at his youth...
Someday an enterprising cartographer will publish a map of the world, annotated with the operating locales of fictional detectives. Until this year, not much of note would have appeared next to the name Jerusalem. But it is there that Roger L. Simon's Moses Wine traverses the labyrinths of the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, in Raising the Dead (Villard; 228 pages; $15.95). Wine, an American Jew who combines pratfall vulnerability with foolhardy vigor, finds himself hired by Arabs to penetrate an organization much like the militant Jewish Defense League...
...Simon's swift-paced and snappily told tale cannot compare, however, with Jonathan Kellerman's The Butcher's Theater (Bantam; 627 pages; $19.95), a sprawling yet spellbinding plunge into Jerusalem's ethnic, religious and social cauldron. Kellerman, a clinical psychologist whose previous books have featured a psychologist as detective, turns here to tracking the emotional evolution of a serial killer and the creation of a multiethnic police team to catch him before his savagery destroys the fragile equilibrium among Jews, Arabs and Christians. The mawkishly melodramatic finale is Kellerman's only miscalculation in a vivid, fascinating tale...
...Simon and Schuster: New York...