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It is not surprising, then, that The Easter Parade picks up a subject that is already senile through overuse: unfulfilled women, married and single. Yates briskly traces some 40 years in the lives of two sisters, Sarah and Emily Grimes. When their parents are divorced, the little girls grieve over...
Why not? The author, naturalistically, does not explain what Emily cannot understand, but the answer is manifest on every page of the novel. The thing gone wrong in the Grimes sisters' lives is life itself.
Each of the playlets is a slightly shell-shocked encounter between visitors from outside city-states (New York, Philadelphia, London, Chicago) and Los Angeles, capital of the palm fringe of Western civilization. In playlet No. 1, two divorced ex-writers get together to discuss dividing the spoils: their 17-year...
In the brief period since he set himself up in a Bel Air mansion, Simon, now 48, has not only survived but scored mightily. His new movie, Murder by Death, starring Truman Capote, Sir Alec Guinness, Maggie Smith, Peter Sellers and David Niven, will open later this month, and by...
As Grimes talked, Jeff Lessard, looking more out-of-breath schlemiel than on-the-move capitalist, in his work clothes and half-grown moustache, ambled over Bic's and Brigham's, the natural next to the corporate. Grimes put his arm around his employee's shoulder. "Someday," he said, smiling...