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The Betty Mayer theory: "He doesn't live by a strict schedule, although he'd probably be better off is he did. Whenever I travel with him I think, 'Now we'll have a chance to talk,' but he immediately settles himself down and goes to sleep."
Stout relishes such topical references; they are an octogenarian's way of exhibiting an elastic, contemporary mind. Indeed, a few years after entering his eighth decade he wrote a Jesuit priest friend, signing himself Rex Stout, S.J.-for "still jaunty." So is Wolfe, who this time even goes to...
Secret Yen. But the military is only one of Pike's many interests. Says an official biographical memo he wrote about himself: "He can fly a plane, navigate a boat, play a piano (or a ukulele) . . . swing an ax, sing a song . . ." The son of a Republican Long Island...
DAYS 6, 7, 8. The hunt settles down to gray, repetitive routine-phone work, sifting previously gathered information, conferring with informers. One hundred detectives and police officers are now working full-time on the case, and everyone else on the force has it in mind. "There are 30,000 cops...
This particular allegiance seems so intensely pathological, however, that Wertmuller weakens her thesis and un settles the movie dramatically. Raffaella is too shrill at the beginning, then too eager for the fine assortment of humiliations Gennarino has to offer. There is the sense that Wertmuller herself almost revels in the...