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...doubles side, Roiter and Granat would team up to be the top seed in the same way that Majmudar was in singles. The Roiter/Granat duo was only 2-11, but the other two teams--Majmudar/Torres and sophomore Julia Kim/Hricko--were a combined 24-9 in dual matches...
...Pollack wanted to meet me," says GREG KINNEAR, "I assumed he probably wanted me to come by and wax his car." In fact, the director wanted Kinnear--host of Later, NBC's post-Conan O'Brien talk show-to co-star in a remake ofSabrina, alongside HARRISON FORD and JULIA ORMOND. "I was disappointed when I found out he wasn't considering me for the part of Sabrina," Kinnear says of his first film role. "But hey, you take your lumps in show biz." Returning to earth--and Later--doesn't seem to have had a dampening effect...
...questing, tormented main character is Julia, a successful architect, divorced and, at 41, pregnant for the first time, by a casual lover. Her marriage broke up some years before because she refused to have children, fearing that a streak of brutality might surface in her own nature. Her mother disappeared when she was nine, and after that her charming, beloved father beat her repeatedly, abuse that stopped just short of being openly sexual...
...State to confront her father and clear her mind before the birth of her child. What she finds is a feeble old man, clothed horribly in rags of strength and charm, too confused to admit the truth he has always denied. This is the best of the novel, as Julia realizes that there will be no healing resolution because, as usual, life's story lines are murky...
Alas, the plot committee takes over. An aunt and uncle reveal that Julia's long-gone mother is not dead but teaching school in Oregon. A reunion follows, not a word of which is believable, including the mother's rueful assertions that she deserted Julia's father for a lover, and later watched Julia's college graduation from a back row. This slack stuff is soap opera, and even a writer as gifted as Hegi can't dress it up as anything else...