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...Henry Nissen, a.k.a. Hank Nissen, a.k.a. Spider Nissen and the last clung to him like a bad smell. He had a touch of the hyena for that matter--the same we-eat-tainted-meat-together intimacy that burns out of a hyena's eyes behind the bars of his cage. So Spider Nissen would look at me and give a giggle as if we had both had a girl together, and each took turns sitting on her head...
...with his Eurail Pass in order to use it for an extra month. He spent a day in jail and was threated with deportation, but somehow worked his way out of it. While researching in Finland, he received media fame for participating in a music workshop given by John Cage, one of the foremost innovative contemporary composers...
...high roller in Stick, explains his boss: "What the man likes is to rub up against danger without getting any on him. Make him feel like the macho man ... See, he sits there at the club with his rich friends? Say, oh yeah, I go right in the cage with 'em. They don't hurt me none...
Pursuing his prototypes, the author has gone into the same cage, hanging around ethnic and inner-city bars, courtrooms and squad rooms. These days, however, he is content to stay at a 200-year-old writing table in the large and comfortable study of his Birmingham, Mich., home 15 miles and financial light-years from the Detroit streets he portrays. Even so, the man who made close to $1 million last year from film deals and literary rights has not let success alter his owlish image. Let others compose on word processors; Leonard still writes in longhand and revises...
...either history or the script invested them with. Be that as it may, one also suspects that in a theatrical climate where the domestication of homoexoticism for the middle-class market is a prime order of business, this play may well find its place as a sort of La Cage aux Folles sans score, but avec an up-market literary-historical twist...