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From the moment he saw his first big top as a boy, Vargas' obsession was to have one of his own. After marking time as a Fuller Brush salesman and working for the Chicago zoo, in 1972 he bought a small circus that had no tent -a failing he...
MANY women spend a lot of time, money and often desperate effort trying to make their bodies desirable. They are primed to do so by the cosmetics and clothing industry and their advertising, by fashion magazines or even blatantly exploitive pulp like Viva and Playboy. The result of this obsession...
The motivation behind this romantic obsession, Mack argues, was Lawrence's need for redemption--a need spurred not only by his shame about being a bastard, but also by the secret life his unwed parents led in order to evade public scorn and prejudice. What better reason for identifying with...
Director Mike Nichols' work is clean, powerful and electric, and he has elicited from Dorian Harewood a shattering performance that is equally intense in its falsely gibing nonchalance and in its true sorrow. But what about Playwright Rabe and his obsession with the same terrain and subject? It is...
Hughes would work and read for days on end. Then he would fall into an almost comatose state in which he would sleep for several days. His eating habits were equally bizarre. He existed largely on unvaried diets consisting mainly of such sweets as fudge and cakes. At one time...