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...very good film, beautifully shot and edited, intelligently structured and?to risk what will surely seem at first a highly inappropriate term?charming. Yes, charming ... The film's second, longer half deals with professional-level competition in the Mr. Olympia contest. The filmmakers have found an ideal protagonist ... 'the one and only' Arnold Schwarzenegger, 29, an Austrian-born U.S. citizen, six times winner of this title and anxious to retire on a seventh victory. A cool, shrewd and boyish charmer, HE EXUDES THE EASY CONFIDENCE OF A MAN WHO HAS ALWAYS KNOWN HE WILL BE A STAR OF SOME KIND...
...Sally Farber, the protagonist of Lisa Grunwald's novel Whatever Makes You Happy (Random House; 238 pages), notes, quarrels about what anger means, or sadness, or envy. "But happiness is-it's-a shimmer." Farber, 40, has had no trouble writing books on The History of Anger, The History of Jealousy and even The History of Love, but she's hung up on writing the biography of happiness. Two kids running into the bedroom "like bright, sharp arrows," a "tidy, perfect, kitchen drawer" of a husband plus a book contract, and still, for Sally, happiness lies around the corner...
...American Prometheus” has all the makings of a solid spy thriller. The protagonist is a brilliant but troubled physicist who flirts with the Communist Party and then does top-secret government work on the atomic bomb. Along the way, there are love affairs, a suicide, illegal wiretaps, vindictive former friends, and a kangaroo court. John le Carré could not have imagined a better story...
Solondz begins his film with the funeral of Dawn Weiner, the protagonist of “Dollhouse,” who has killed herself, because she couldn’t stand the nature of the world. The rest of the film traces the bizarre story of Dawn’s cousin, the palindromically named Aviva, as she wishes for “lots and lots of babies,” has sex with a horny family friend, and is forced into an abortion by her well-meaning mother (“Sea of Love” femme fatale Ellen Barkin...
With the genre thus defined, I opened the pages of “Chloe Does Yale”—whose protagonist aspires to be the Ivy League equivalent of those older ladies—hoping for something at least mildly salacious. “Chloe” is the fictional debut of Natalie Krinsky, the former sex columnist of New Haven, and it chronicles the life of a female undergrad at her alma mater, who not surprisingly writes a sex column...