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...prose flags, he brings on a new character: the worst barber in the world; "a circus of one" who moves his feast of dogs, cats, geese and parakeets from a roof in the summer to a basement in the winter, never speaking to people, only singing to them; a gape-mouthed alcoholic who sleeps in empty tenement bathtubs. These people are exaggerations, of course, but they remain recognizable members of that unending troupe of ragpickers and pensioners now huddled under the generic label Homeless. Bradbury's sympathies are with them, and his hero is soon dwarfed by the ancient archetypes...
Mutual traditions of gentility have often provided a bond between Southerners and the British. So no one should gape if the role of a Southern belle seems to fit Lesley-Anne Down better than a custom-made bodice. In the 12-hr. pre- Civil War saga North and South, scheduled to air on ABC in early November, British-born Down, 31, plays the refined daughter of a Louisiana Frenchman who marries a man she does not love. "He turns out to be a fiend," says Down, who draws no parallels to her ongoing real-life divorce from Director William Friedkin...
...Life begins at 54 for Liza Minnelli and Shirley MacLaine and Farrah Fawcett-Majors and Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs. Oh, yes, and for Bianca Jagger and Tennis Star Vitas Gerulaitis and even Bella Abzug. Inside Manhattan's hottest disco, Studio 54, the elite meet to gyrate to the beat, gape and be gaped at. Owner Steve Rubell, who light-show years away was a Wall Street broker, stations himself at the doorway (with a few bouncers) to weed the throngs begging for entrance. "We only want fun people," he explains. "The wilder the clothes, the better the chance you have...
...more pacific nature. In a spouse-abuse workshop in Rockland County, N.Y., a man named George, 50, reported at the end of six weeks, "If a husband takes control of himself, a wife cannot make him hit her." As awareness goes, this particular insight might make Freud gape, but George's wife Susan reports no violence for the past 18 months...
...shocking surrealism: an old goat-man slaughters a calf; Mieze's corpse turns to soft-focus glitter, as if she had become in death a Hollywood star; a scorpion clambers up the entwined legs of two lovers, across the woman's breast and into the bloody gape of her slit throat. In the past, Fassbinder had seemed a master without masterpieces, teasing with his outsize talent but never quite delivering. And now, posthumously, a glorious surprise. Berlin Alexanderplatz is the goods...