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Curiously, for a man who prides himself on his unsentimentality, Vidal shades his entire story with the romantic memory of a love affair he had with a classmate at St. Albans. He suggests that blond, sunny, athletic Jimmie Trimble, who died in a foxhole in Iwo Jima, was his Rosebud...
Basically, the movie is supposed to be a romantic spoof on Greek tragedies. The stage shifts back and forth from Allen's modern New York City life to a supposedly funny version of "Oedipus Rex" in a Greek amphitheater. The latter is complete with togas, masks, and even Oedipus and...
And romantic relationships? Forget them, campaign workers said There is too much travel, too much uncertainty, too low a salary and too many hours at the office for a normal relationship to work out.
It shows. Daydream is a refreshingly understated piece of work and her best album yet. Her vocals are strong and serenely passionate. Her lyrics (she co-writes nearly all her songs) are smarter, and her rhymes more artful and flowing: "As we drifted to another place in time/ And the...
Remember when cockroaches were romantic? Mary Cantwell's Manhattan, When I Was Young (Houghton Mifflin; 214 pages; $21.95) is an unusually deft contribution to the durable genre of memoirs on the theme of How I Came of Age in a Greenwich Village Walk-Up, Married an Intellectual and Learned to...