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directed by Les Blank, Marureen Gosling, and Chris Simon...
Wilfrid Sheed's In Love with Daylight (Simon & Schuster; 252 pages; $23) and Paul West's A Stroke of Genius (Viking; 181 pages; $21.95) are similar medical memoirs, kind of Blue Cross specials in which the writers recount their tussles with diseases and the imperfect professionals who treat them. Sheed is a novelist, essayist and critic with few equals in the styling of buoyant observations on the decline and fall of just about everything. Prolific only begins to describe West, whose 14 novels, nine works of nonfiction and two volumes of poetry exhibit a range of imagination and richness...
Among the most prominent of these are theErasmus Prize (1986), the Simon Bolivar Prize(1990) and the Indira Gandhi Prize...
Even when covering questionable selections like Paul Simon's creamed-corn lullabye "Something So Right," Lennox is a compelling performer. The voice that made the Eurythmics famous (sorry, Dave) has only improved with age. Medusa makes the listener look forward to what Annie Lennox will produce next...
...hard to begrudge Broderick the part. To the role of J. Pierrepont Finch, the World Wide Wicket Co.'s window washer turned mailroom clerk turned rising executive, he brings the same quizzical intensity of gaze and naturalness of gesture that carried him to stardom in everything from Neil Simon comedies like Brighton Beach Memoirs to the Civil War epic film Glory. As an actor, Broderick has a gift that is almost impossible to fabricate: an unforced freshness...