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...screen debut in Cyclone, a sci-fi adventure due out in January. Showing a knack for real-life irony, Reagan, 41, plays a bumbling CIA agent in pursuit of a supersophisticated motorcycle. "I kind of provide some comic relief," says Reagan, who previously sought fame as a speedboat racer. The movie "was a ton of fun. And because I've been in front of a camera 99% of the time because of who my family is, I was comfortable with it." Now if anyone wants to make All the President's Children, the full cast is available...
When Miami police captured Rafael Soto, 35, running down a darkened street soaking wet one night last week, they did not buy his story that he had fallen overboard while fishing. A little after 1 a.m., a Coast Guard helicopter had spotted a speedboat running without lights toward Miami. As the craft was pursued across Biscayne Bay, three men jumped overboard in an attempt to escape. Soto is believed to be one of them. The cargo on board: 1,909 lbs. of nearly pure cocaine. With a street value of $575 million, it was the largest coke seizure...
...Handsome and well-tailored, he acquired six parcels of Palm Beach County real estate worth nearly $400,000, took ski vacations in chic Vail, Colo., dabbled in photography and raced cars, finishing a respectable 17th in the Miami Grand Prix (prize: $400). A Jacuzzi bubbled outside his bedroom, a speedboat was moored to his private dock. And, of course, Chris Wilder had a penchant for attractive young women. In an interview for a dating service videotaped in 1981, he said, "I want to date and enjoy the company of women, women with depth. I'm looking for a long...
...fiction, she proved something of a middling radical. Speedboat (1976) blurred traditional narrative and character development with the authority of a French antinovel. But the book avoided the rigid aesthetic of a Robbe-Grillet with choice bits of old-fashioned storytelling. Anecdotes, conversations and apergus were presented as a highly refined traffic din emanating from cultural Manhattan. The selected fragments added up to a lasting impression of an oddly provincial city of small talk in narrow brownstones and desperate solipsisms on the even narrower couches of psychotherapists...
...shadowy characters but the same cosmopolitan, distanced voice. It belongs, of course, to Adler herself, a former student at some of the world's leading universities, including the Sorbonne, Harvard, and Yale Law School, and, at 45, an astute observer and listener based at The New Yorker. Like Speedboat, the new book is an artful arrangement of discontinuous parts. Its narrator exemplifies the fugitive detachment nurtured by young intellectuals in the 1950s. Her name is Kate Ennis, though her identity is never as clear as her prose. At one point, Ennis, or someone who sounds like her, appears...