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...conversation shifts to Hollywood, where Welch feels she was ill-treated by the film industry. She thought she had finally made a breakthrough into serious acting when she was chosen in 1980 to play the lead in the movie version of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. She was fired a few weeks after work began, however, for reasons that are still murky, and the shock was traumatic...
...sincerity, Lorena Hickok succeeded in finding what radical social theorists have merely postulated to exist--that among us which is human. In taking to the home' of America, and then, reporting what she felt, Lorena Hickok avoided the flaw that undermined other 1930's writers, from John Steinbeck to Malcolm Cowley. No golden mountains, no grapes of wrath, no morality play--she gives us a vision of the America that peers out from that frail cover-girl's eyes. It's an image as haunting as it is compelling...
...golf course, Stadler spits and fulminates, though he hasn't flung a club in a long while. He stands 5 ft. 10 in. and weighs 216 Ibs., but what really ought to be measured is his hands. They are hands from Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. The price of having huge hands is having huge feet, and his have suffered much in his wild swinging tantrums. All of the pros talk of limping in, but Stadler has done...
...American classics, and all have been singled out by public schools or libraries-but not for praise. In fact, these distinguished titles all appear on some current list or other of banned books: Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Bernard Malamud's The Fixer, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Ralph Ellison's Invisible. Man, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, P.L Travers' Mary Poppins and The American Heritage...
With such an entertaining array of caricatures--which also includes a flock of giggly, warm-hearted floozies, a gesticulating Mexican grocer, and the large, dull-witted Black man who appears so frequently in Steinbeck's novels--Ward must have figured he could get away with very little plot. Whole scenes are devoted to "local color"--people staring off into the sea, or making idle chitchat. Early on, Doc discourses for a full six minutes about the habits of some octupi he has found in the surf. They look lovely with their frothy tendrils waving delicately in Doc's fish tank...