Word: sleepless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three nights a week, however, something keeps Sulzberger awake. Visions of vegetables dance in his something sleepless head, along with recipes for pork chops fiégeoise, treatises on termite detection, shopping guides to $44 canvas bags and $1,850 "Love" pendants from Tiffany...
...dying. Gielgud is himself dying--in the most undignified way imaginable, his colon having acquired a will of its own--as he composes the novel, his final attempt to resolve his tortured past. Struggling with mortality, he confronts at last his anguish over his wife's suicide, spending a sleepless night ordering his memories to achieve a form of aesthetic absolution...
...seems that Park spent too many sleepless nights during the off season, unhappily reminiscing about a team that came back from its Florida trip with an 11-2 record and proceeded to get tanned up North by dropping 16 of its remaining 22 games for an overall 17-18 slate...
Most of the movie takes place during one awful night in the sleepless imagination of a dying novelist (played with fierce relish by John Gielgud). Trying to construct a final fiction, his mind keeps moving his son (Bogarde), his son's wife (Ellen Burstyn), his bastard progeny (David Warner) and his own dead wife (Elaine Stritch) around a mythical country. His vision of his dear ones is, to say the least, misanthropic. They are cold, loveless creatures, incapable of responding to one another except by lobbing epigrams, Wildean in rhythm but not in wit, back and forth...
Highlights of Gilmore's story appeared in the National Enquirer, including an interview about his thoughts on death and a series of letters to his onetime mistress. Nicole Barrett, 20, who has been hospitalized ever since she joined him in an unsuccessful suicide pact last November. On sleepless nights in prison, Gilmore said, he has been haunted by ghosts. "They're slippery, sneaky, and get tangled in your hair like bats . . . demons with dirty, furry bodies whispering vile things . . . creeping, crawling, red-eyed soul less beasts. They bite and claw, scratch and screech...