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...year. It will join-perhaps for the last time-two of the prettiest, wittiest comics in Hollywood. Mary can wrap an insult in velvet and put down a lover so gently that he never knows what happened until he wakes up on the sidewalk outside her apartment. Valerie can sketch a character with a series of straight lines and give an audience a solid minute of funny faces-without spilling a grain of makeup or a scintilla of style...
WHILE ANAIS NIN concentrated on the art of fiction, Henry Miller tussled with his suspicion that her art was too often the artifice of fiction. Nin operated on an emotional plane where she tried to sketch the world through people's fantasies about it, instead of through physical reality. By delineating her characters in the hue of their own dreams and flights or imagination--with barely a hint at the link to actual experience--she hoped to distill the purest state of love, or fear, or aloneness from them. By concentrating on private mental worlds--which Nin called "cities...
...take pleasure in matching up these variant titles with the originals, or comparing, say, Vadim's precocious daughter with Nabokov's Lolita, but no real light is shed by the kind of wordplay that turns the real-life Camera Obscura into the fictional Camera Lucida, or by a stereotyped sketch of another Lolita...
...tellingly, as explorer, searching for a way back into her own past. This same personal approach is carried even further in the fourth of the quartet by Martin Scorsese's (Mean Streets) singular Italianamerican, which is a portrait of Scorsese's parents as well as a rough sketch for part of the director's autobiography. Scorsese portrays his parents not only through their own reminiscences about growing up and marrying on New York's Lower East Side but through their relationships with him and with each other, as they talk about a recent trip to Italy...
...tape a special show marking his 25th year on TV. Waving an arm at the thousands of New Yorkers who came to watch the free entertainment, he cracked: "This is the first audience that I've ever played to on grass-that I knew about." In one sketch, Hope and Jackie Gleason dressed up as two Central Park vice-squad members in bosomy drag. Carol Channing, one of the guest stars, asked Hope what would become of his talent if he decided to retire. Said Hope: "I won't let it all go to waste...