Word: walkerism
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...FIRST PEOPLE TO LEARN THE hottest news in politics these days are Colin Powell and Wendy Walker Whitworth. The top producer for Larry King's prime-time chat show on CNN, Whitworth had just finished the cake and champagne at her mother's 80th birthday celebration in Chicago early last week when her ever present beeper began chirping. The message: Call Ross Perot...
...stage roles, Mitchell hasn?t always played men with much to be happy about. Coalhouse Walker, Jr., the Ragtime character that made his Broadway name in 1998 must pursue his racial grievance into obsession and tragedy. Don Quixote, in a Man of La Mancha revival two years ago, is the addled victim of scorn and abuse. Paul the puppeteer, in the City Center Encores! 2002 concert version of Carnival, is crippled, and expresses his sensitivity in bitterness. The barber Sweeney Todd, whom Mitchell played the same year for a Stephen Sondheim season in Washington, D.C., kills his customers and sells...
...Thus spoke François Mitterrand, obsessed with his place in history, to a young writer in May 1995 - the final month of his 14 years at the Elysée. The writer went on to put those words into the script of Le Promeneur du Champs de Mars (Walker on the Champs de Mars), director Robert Guédiguian's spare, focused film about Mitterrand's final years - in which the President dictates his memoirs and hones his legacy while wracked with the prostate cancer that will end his life...
...parallel children's make-believe play. Authors often report that their characters seem to have autonomous lives, dictating their own dialogue, controlling the plot of stories and sometimes refusing to do what the authors ask of them. Some writers maintain personal relationships with characters outside their fictions. Novelist Alice Walker says she lived with her characters for a year while writing The Color Purple, even moving from New York City to Northern California to please them. They didn't like the tall buildings and city congestion, she says...
...long-lost mother, and a sexy hairdresser, who may or may not be his vanished elder sister. Filling out the cast is an old man who lost his memory in an apparent UFO encounter but gained the power to converse with cats. Also present is Johnnie Walker (of whisky fame, in tails and top hat), who kills felines to make flutes from their souls, and Colonel Sanders (the fried-chicken guy, in white suit and string tie), who moonlights as a back-alley pimp and supernatural fixer. Fans of Murakami will find none of this unusual. Since Norwegian Wood...