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...distraction, as King Herod in Oscar Wilde's Salome. The next night, in the new Chinese Coffee by the relatively unknown Ira Lewis, Pacino is a manic-depressive novelist-cum-doorman, living on the extreme margins of the arts world in Manhattan and dreaming that the next confessional, autobiographical manuscript will justify his colossal self-importance. The only thing the roles have in common is that both show off his grace with language, whether Wilde's shimmering, overripe, pseudo-antique prose poetry or Lewis' quintessentially Manhattan cocktail of complaint and cranky insult comedy...
...that Spalding Gray didn't want to work on his novel, the MONSTER IN A BOX of this well-filmed monologue. It's that he can't resist interruption. So he totes the manuscript with him to Los Angeles (surviving earthquakes and agents), on a fact-finding mission to Nicaragua (seeing one of his party go mad) and to Moscow (enduring an unaccountable vodka shortage). He also deals with aids anxiety and other distractions. Ironic and self-deprecating (his own description), he's neither wildly comic nor deeply dramatic. He's more like a good dinner-table talker, an agreeable...
...have dominated the trilogy -- Liz Headleand, Alix Bowen and Esther Breuer. But this time, most of the story belongs to Liz, a twice-divorced psychotherapist who lives comfortably in London's St. John's Wood. It is she who receives by mail an odd package containing notebooks, scrambled manuscript pages and what appears to be the skeletal remains of a human finger. She assumes that all this has something to do with her friend Stephen Cox, a respected novelist who set off some two years earlier, hoping to get into Cambodia and gather material for a play about...
...fairness it should be said that nothing about Personae was calculated to bring its author notoriety. The book was rejected by an honor roll of prestigious publishers. But when success finally came, nine years after the manuscript was completed, the star was ready and waiting to be born. Personae climbed to seventh place on the paperback best-seller list, a true rarity for a scholarly book...
Paglia's ideal women are independent, like Amelia Earhart or Katharine Hepburn. She became obsessed with Earhart as a teenager and even wrote a book- length manuscript about her. Little Camille's enthusiasms were something her Italian immigrant parents fostered. Her father, a French professor at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, taught her to pursue goals aggressively. Today the daughter says ruefully, "He created a monster he couldn't control...