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...Hollywood, alcoholism, two failed marriages and at least one critical scalping, only to retain his stature as one of the most original American writers on either side of the Mississippi. This fall his seventh novel, Keep the Change, was published, ending a four-year hiatus from long fiction. The New York Times proclaimed it the "best book he has written to date." Almost as sweet is the news that Keep the Change is already the best- selling book of his career. No wonder that McGuane's Raw Deal Ranch has been rechristened Gladstone...
...advent of a Rocky Mountain frost provides the perfect impetus for McGuane's own literary labors. In fact, McGuane is already itching to start a new novel, which he says will cover a "larger piece of territory, a larger slice of humanity and include some topics I've never written about before, like politics...
...twofold cleverness of City of Angels, which opened on Broadway last week. The show pays honest homage to the pop-culture traditions of stage, cinema, radio and recording studio (especially those of the '40s, when it is set), yet brings them together in a fashion that feels fresh and new. Nostalgia plus novelty is a notoriously volatile cocktail, but Angels has the impeccably elegant fizz of champagne...
...hint of kinky sex), the moneystruck young writer (Gregg Edelman) peevishly retypes his scenes -- and, in an inspired bit of playfulness, that action causes his characters to move and speak jerkily backward, as if a film were being rewound, until they are back in position to perform the new bowdlerized version...
...shouting erupted as John Cardinal O'Connor began his Sunday-morning sermon in St. Patrick's Cathedral on New York City's Fifth Avenue. "You bigot, O'Connor, you're killing us!" yelled one protester. Others stretched out in the aisles or chained themselves to pews. As police tried vainly to restore order, the Cardinal cut through the din. "Does everybody care to stand and pray?" he asked. In response the parishioners rose and chanted the Lord's Prayer at the top of their voices. As the service went on, police arrested 43 demonstrators, and carried many out on stretchers...