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...Lemme just take this call," says producer Lawrence Gordon, interrupting an interview to grab the phone. What follows is one of those edgy Hollywood power conversations, laced with sarcasm, posturing and barely controlled venom. "What do you mean you have nothing to do with it?" says Gordon. "No, I don't believe you . . . Suppose I bid $5 million, will you take credit for it?" Gordon hangs up the phone, then says with a smile, "So now we have to go to plan...
When Nixon's attention turns to his real enemies -- Jews, Democrats, liberals, intellectuals, anyone who came from a loftier social background than he did -- the President erupts in spurts of venom about clowns in government, conspiratorial leakers, preacher types, gum-chewing reporters, Kennedys. "A lot of our own people come in here, and they start sucking around the Georgetown set. All of a sudden, they're just as bad as the others . . . They're disgusting." He speculates that the antiwar protests are part of a Jewish plot. "Aren't the Chicago Seven all Jews? ((Rennie)) Davis...
Dershowitz reserves some of his bitterest venom for Jews who fail to join him in his crusade to confront. Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky? A "house Jew." Ditto for Rabbi Ben Zion Gold of Harvard Hillel. Anyone who fails to exhibit sufficient chutzpah (Dershowitz determines how much that is) is falling into the same rut that led to discrimination, pogroms and Auschwitz...
GRAHAM PARKER: STRUCK BY LIGHTNING (RCA). Don't get in this man's way: "She's a living example," he sings, "of God's bad taste." And that's a love song; well, sort of. It's typical of the venom-tipped but still lyrical reflections stashed throughout the 15 tunes on this high-velocity workout by one of the orneriest but most beguiling rockers in the neighborhood...
Postcards from the Edge Hollywood has so much fun hating itself that the venom can taste like fine wine. Carrie Fisher puts plenty of savory laughs into her, well, perhaps slightly autobiographical script, and under Mike Nichols' direction, Meryl Streep parades her dazzling comedic gifts; she adds spin and sizzle to every...