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...rehab clinic. The movie, which drops the postcards but keeps the edge, is a show-biz mother-daughter film par excellence -- Terms of Endearment out of Gypsy. Suzanne has her poignant wrangles with movie types (nice turns by Dennis Quaid and Rob Reiner as producers, Gene Hackman and Simon Callow as directors), but Postcards is bound by family ties. MacLaine gives a wonderfully excessive rendition of the Sondheim song I'm Still Here: "First you're another sloe-eyed vamp,/ Then someone's mother, then you're camp." In Postcards she is all of these, and better still she finds...
Last June, Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.) threatened to introduce legislation abolishing the Office of Civil Rights if it did not show signs of improvement. And Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) concluded in a letter to a ranking senator last August that the office is "incompetent or dragging its feet...
BELLE FICTION: In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa -- Would you believe an erotic family novel? The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The autumn of Simon Bolivar. Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut -- Meditations of a Vietnam vet in 2001. Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry -- Calamity Jane, Bill Cody and Sitting Bull whoop it up. Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver -- Environmental catastrophe meets Native American mythology. The Final Club by Geoffrey Wolff -- Class warfare at Princeton during the 1950s. Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman -- Fictional characters caught up in the factual bombing of Move headquarters...
...Simon & Schuster; 315 pages...
...become more inventive, there is a resurgence of interest in both purely ethnic cuisines and down-home, regional foods. The best in this category are a pair of overillustrated but authentic books on country cooking from France and Italy. Recipes from a French Herb Garden by Geraldene Holt (Simon & Schuster; $24.95) is as helpful with its gardening instructions as with its recipes. If my lavender ever blooms, I'm going to try the ice cream with fresh lavender flowers and muscat. The companion book, Recipes from an Italian Farmhouse by Valentina Harris (Simon & Schuster; $24.95), is equally beautiful...