Word: mccloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is left, "Unspoiled Monsters" and "Kate McCloud," is shaped by the hard-boiled voice of the narrator, a bisexual prostitute named P.B. Jones who describes himself as a Hershey Bar whore ("there wasn't much I wouldn't do for a nickel's worth of chocolate"). Starting out in a St. Louis orphanage, Jones works his way up, first as a masseur in Miami, then as a would-be writer who massages the egos of the rich and famous in New York and Europe. There is a fetal plot that would have developed into a romantically justified kidnaping...
...Sorry Scheme of Things Entire and The Ghastly Dinner Party, "an unsparing delineation of the worm-eaten psyche of modern man as exemplified in the subcutaneous motivations propelling the social lives of urban people whose surfaces are rotten enough." Sorry Scheme sold three copies. Earl's girlfriend Poppy McCloud writes best-selling romances like Break Slowly, Dawn and commands $2 million advances. What do these vastly different writers have in common, besides a publisher named Dogwinkle? Well, there is sex, which the pun-loving Peter De Vries, 76, might call the great leveler. There are also the usual convoy...
...McCloud, Calif...
Senior David Thompson was last night's leading scorer with 36 points. Senior Corky McCloud followed with 24 and junior John Williams contributed...
Duvall's own career has been a Cinderella story of sorts. At the age of 20, she was plucked out of Houston by Director Robert Altman, who was on location for the movie Brewster McCloud. Duvall, all lollipop eyes and stringbean legs, was recognized by Altman as a strong, but flighty American original whom he could fashion to his needs. He cast her in a variety of roles in seven of his films, including Three Women, Nashville and McCabe and Mrs. Miller...