Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WITH ALL these tales to tell, there's no way the production could fail. The only weakness is that the stories rarely mesh, leaving each performance isolated. Director Patrick Bradford tries to combat the problem by casting the actors in one another's tales. But because the stories are so...
Nathalie Baye, remembered for her superb performance as the long-suffering wife of a medieval impostor in The Return of Martin Guerre, is here promoted to the role of a modern-day usurper, named Helene. As in Guerre, she starts out as the victim--this time, eight months pregnant, abandoned...
The magazine runs high-society gossip (a few pieces on the Von Bulow trial), unusual "living on the edge" tales (one about a transexual Jewish American Princess), and voyeuristic features (a look at the behind-the-scenes goings on during the recent Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton play Private Lives.) But the...
Formal learning continued at the University of Chicago, where Roth earned a master's degree in literature. Quarterlies published his first stories. One of them, The Contest for Aaron Gold, was selected for the 1956 Martha Foley collection of Best American Short Stories. By this time, he was a...
TALES FROM THE CRYPT