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Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner
Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner








Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner

"It's one thing to be ready for it intellectually, but it's another thing to be here." based on the novel by Judith Rossner" flashes on the screen, she sighs and shrinks lower in her seat. Kiley fawns over James (William Atherton), the upstanding social worker Theresa brings home for dinner it delights him that James once studied for the priesthood. Kiley plays Theresa's overbearing father, a stern Irish Catholic who trots around the house in a Notre Dame jacket and spits fire when his daughter moves into a place of her own. She spies actor Richard Kiley in the credits. Actually, his only sin was taking me to a cheap Hollywood restaurant for lunch. Over the stacks of 'Goodbar,' they have a big sign, 'DO NOT SHRED.' I was taken there by this obnoxious paperback salesman named Arnie. "They should put her on the cover of the paperback," Rossner is saying. In "Goodbar," Woody Allen's endearing, foot-in-the-mouth girlfriend in "Annie Hall" plays Theresa Dunn, devoted teacher of deaf children by day, singles-bar devotee by night. Rossner, 42-year-old author of five novels, Bronx-born, brassy, divorced mother of two, waves the glossy program festooned with a langorous Diane Keaton in disco heaven. As screening hour approaches, authors who sing away their creations to Hollywood come to feel like the father in the delivery room: They can't wait to see how things will turn out, but it's too late to make any changes.

Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner

For courage, she has stashed a bottle of wine under the seat.Ī quarter of a million dollars and piece of the film - the deal her agent cut for movie rights to her novel "Looking for Mr. Judith Rossner burrows deep into her second-row seat and tries to hide.










Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner