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...another such scene, Masha (Cheryl Giannini) recites her lines blankly to the tuneless hum of a spinning top. A third vignette shows Natasha sitting among a clutter of her child's toys: Building blocks, a tiny chair, a wooden dog on a string are silhouetted brokenly against the floor...
...Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, he joined the student dramatic society after being kicked off the second-string football team because of a barroom squabble. His drama professor, James Michael, remembers "having trouble not casting Paul as the lead in every play," but Newman remembers being a very bad actor. His self-assessment then and now is of a very slow study without much natural talent for anything except concentration and tenacity. "I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor," he recalls. "Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed...
...marriage. A few years ago, when he was filming in Hawaii, Paul handed Joanne a box with a new evening gown in it. When she had changed, they were flown to a deserted golf course where they were served an elegant dinner alone beside the sea, serenaded by a string quartet. A superstar's easy gesture; what says more is that after 2½ decades he describes her, with great relish, as "a voluptuary...
...Good Rockin' Tonight," an insurance man gives up his job to become a Presley imitator, convinced that since both he and Elvis are overweight, admire Cadillac Eldorados and like to stay up all night, he is bound for glory. Nicholson Baker's "K. 590" presents a university string quartet attempting to practice Mozart in a hotel "refreshment room" while the landlady vacuums and a pair of teen-age girls ply a soda machine with quarters...
...considered a child and would go with she and his sister. If he wore long pants, he would go with the men, whom the Nazis often kept alive as workers. She dressed him in long pants and by doing so saved his life. It was the first in a string of miraculous and intuitive acts that marked his path to survival. Pisar never saw his mother or sister again...