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...realize his original survival plan. Ragtime is a Book-of-the-Month Club selection with a first printing of 60,000 copies. Director Robert Altman (Nashville) will film the book next year. To date, Doctorow is best known as the author of The Book of Daniel, an extraordinary succès d'estime that narrowly missed the National Book Award for 1971. Despite parallels to the Rosenberg atom-spy case, the novel has an anguished life all its own. Many of its scenes were set in the Bronx neighborhood where Doctorow grew up. Part of Ragtime also has resonances...
...Palace Theater. Before an audience drawn mostly from the clientele of her favorite night spot, the Continental Baths, Midler demonstrated once again that she is a superb female impersonator. Not, however, as good as Rodney Pigeon. The following night at the Blue Angel nightclub, Rodney, 20, scored a succèsfou in the French-inspired transvestite revue Zou. Hurling himself onto the pocket-handkerchief stage, the divine Miss M's carbon copy skittered and tittered while belting out Midler's theme song, Friends...
Peter Shaffer, whose succès de spectacle was The Royal Hunt of the Sun, plays a labored game of "hound the humanist" in The Battle of Shrivings. Sir Gideon Petrie (John Gielgud) is an aged, Bertrand Russell-like champion of rationalism living ascetically at Shrivings, a converted medieval abbey in the Cotswold Hills. From there he guides a peace movement and blandly preaches the perfectibility of human nature to youthful acolytes and to his wife (Wendy Hiller), with whom he renounced sex, on principle...
...genius-impostor Salvador Dali, with whom he shared two main interests, cinema and surrealism. Later, they made two pioneer films: The Andalusian Dog, notable for its explicit Freudian imagery and resolute non-meaning, and The Age of Gold, which contained frenzied images of a homicidal Christ figure. That succès de scandale severed the collaborators forever. "The film was a caricature of my ideas," complained Dali. "Catholicism was attacked in an obvious way, and quite without poetry...
...sign of lack of confidence to survive." Instead, he adopted a hermit's quiet and began turning out a blizzard of atonal music. The Symphony No. 1, composed in 1953, was not played publicly in England until last February, but it has already made Gerhard a major English succès d'estime...