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Sometimes, as with the new romantic comedy Frankie & Johnny, the fantasy is a love song for what's left of New York. Playwright Terrence McNally loves the city as only a recruit from Corpus Christi, Texas, can. Director Garry Marshall, a native New Yorker, loves it as one who has escaped its boundaries but not its nostalgic magnetic pull. So their lovable ex-con Johnny (Al Pacino) may come on to rumpled beauty Frankie (Michelle Pfeiffer) in a workplace seduction straight out of Anita Hill's nightmares, but he's really a sweet guy who can make a cactus bloom...
...city man who moves to the country lugs along a cargo of rustic dreams, all calamitous. As writer David Owen, an escaped New Yorker now living in the white clapboard town of Washington, Conn., says in the first sentence of this terrifying confessional memoir, "I love buying expensive power tools and using them to wreck various parts of my house...
Rethinking Columbus from Historical, Church and Native Perspectives-a symposium with Hans Koning, former reporter for The New Yorker. At the Paulist Center at 5 Park St. in Boston. Call 742-4460. The $10 fee includes coffee and light lunch. Saturday from 9:30 a.m. until...
From the age of eight, when her first poem was printed in the Boston Herald, Plath began awaiting the mailman with baited breath, her talent perpetually on trial. Her persistence through 10 years of New Yorker rejection slips was finally rewarded. Soon after accepting two poems, the New Yorker offered her a first-reading contract...
...book contract he had to keep his subject happy, and he did so, not just by concealing opinions but also by telling overt lies. MacDonald sued, and after a hung jury, McGinniss and his publisher settled, reportedly for $350,000. More humiliation came when Janet Malcolm of the New Yorker detailed McGinniss's indiscretions in a 1989 article, quoting liberally from his letters to MacDonald, including gushing affirmations of belief in his innocence, sleazy attempts to muscle out competing writers, and financial and sexual confessions meant to induce the convicted man to respond in kind...