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...real estate speculator identified as "A., the Rich Jew," will revive anti-Jewish feelings in the country. Director Gunther Ruhle insisted that Fassbinder, a * well-known moviemaker, only intended to criticize modern anti-Semitism. Such purposes may seem elusive in a play in which one character says of the protagonist, "They forgot to gas him." The demonstrators, backed by 500 cheering supporters outside the theater, vowed that they would return again and again to make sure that Garbage, which has been blocked several times before, is never performed in Frankfurt...
...protagonist is Eleanor Arroway, director of Project Argus, a Government- sponsored undertaking to comb the universe for alien messages. The time is 1999, when, in Sagan's irrepressibly progressive vision, the President of the U.S. is a woman, and the world's smartest man is a Nigerian. The aliens, however, are stereotypical. By the time their cosmic call is returned, it is clear they are vastly more intelligent and wiser than we are; among other things, they do not seem to have deregulated their telephone system...
...Here the protagonist is an anonymous young writer hacking out Bradburyesque stories for the pulps. The time is 1949, the place is Venice, and in the distance the pier is "falling apart and dying in the sea and you could find there the bones of a vast dinosaur, the roller coaster, being covered by the shifting tides...
...being made into a TV movie for PBS in New York City. The film, being produced by former Princeton students of Bellow's, has delighted the author, and last week he visited the set to make a cameo appearance walking down a hotel corridor past his hapless protagonist, Tommy Wilhelm, played by Robin Williams. The Nobel laureate has no ambitions about an Emmy. "I don't expect to add anything unless something of my absurdity comes through," says Bellow the actor. Bellow the writer was not tempted by the medium either. "I was approached to write the script," he says...
...McInerney's first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, assumed cult status within months of publication. Its second-person narrative, cast of cocaine- fueled yuppies and New York City nightclub scenes had an odd, ironic charm that made some 138,000 buyers eager for his next tale. This time the protagonist has upward immobility but no interest in drugs. In fact, Christopher Ransom, an American drifter in Kyoto, has only one enthusiasm: karate. He hangs out at Hormone Derange, a cowboy store, and tries to regain his spiritual bearings with martial arts. Ransom also wants to avoid memories of a girlfriend...