As Time Goes By
Walsh, Michael
and of modesty. Perhaps Lerner's literary heritage should be considered apart from the tale of his personal foibles. But one wonders whether the same profound As Time Goes By: A Novel of...
...she said with agitation...
...I guess so...
...It was for my father...
...self-absorption that triumphed so relentlessly and remorselessly over spousal obligations is what rendered his oeuvre devoid of more than passing interest...
...asked Rick...
...Kane, you'll remember, had a young son...
...Two pages later we come to the scene of Rick's first meeting with Lois's father Solly, the Beer Baron of the Bronx, who proceeds to pepper him with questions...
...The moral, I believe, was that sometimes it's best to leave well enough alone...
...Citizen Kane II...
...A little real-life back-story here, for the benefit of those Generation-X readers whose familiarity with World War II is limited to Tom Hanks's saving of Private Ryan: Reinhard Heydrich was at that time the brutish Reichsprotekter of Czechoslovakia, known to his non-Aryan subjects as "The Hangman," and to Hitler himself as "the man with an iron heart...
...Everybody loves Casablanca...
...Envy, yes...
...Salinger's royalty checks, although he hasn't touched a typewriter in years...
...Amway bases its compensation on the construction of a network of independent distributors, each of whom starts at the same level...
...The case may be in litigation for quite some time as courts try to sort out the proper standards in this area...
...Drink...
...Why not me...
...Missed what...
...According to Michael Walsh, he was doing lunch at a trendy restaurant in midtown Manhattan with a publisher one day when, out of the blue, she asked if he'd be interested in writing a sequel to Casablanca...
...No one complains about J.D...
...You want me to look my best, don't you...
...Backward/forward moves the story, so that we learn for example, that before mistakenly coming to Casablanca "for the waters," Rick Blaine was a Jewish hoodlum...
...Everyone has a novel in them...
...Witter were given a desk, phone, computer, and license at a brokerage firm, but only showed up occasionally to check his messages and use the executive washroom, would he accuse the company of swindling him if he didn't make any money...
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...What is...
...Mr...
...I think I know...
...For the record, I am not spritzing this up...
...To judge from his dust jacket photo, the blow-dried author ofAs Time Goes By acquired his interest in Rick and Ilsa by osmosis, at one of those with-it Harvard gatherings in the 6o's, where the likes of Todd Gitlin and Al Gore bonded at the Brattle Theatre each year to celebrate Bogart Week...
...knows the characters and their story firsthand...
...At Ruby's...
...He liked to think of himself asa tough guy, and here he was, riding the El to buy an old lady a knish...
...Like Linda Ronstadt's rendering of Cole Porter, the words and music may be there, but absent the spirit...you know what I mean...
...Her shoulder-length hair brushed her bare shoulders, and around her throat she wore a spectacular diamond pendant, which Heydrich had given her for the occasion...
...He was indeed assassinated, in May 1942, by Czech patriots working with British Intelligence, a fact duly It's 'Play It Again, Sam,' Not `Play It Again, Michael' The American Spectator - February 1999 75 embellished by the author of As Time Goes By with, as he writes, "a few minor historical liberties, additions, and conflations," e.g., pages 353-54: Ilsa looked ravishing...
...Kelly thinks there are serious constitutional problems with state aid to education, he should take up the argument with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, co-founders of the University of Virginia, a state institution...
...Case in point, sequels to classics...
...Did he grow up to become Ted Turner...
...Meanwhile, if Mr...
...70, 77 p. 49 P. 9 p. 79 p. 13 p. 83 P. 3 p. 2 p. 19 p. 31 p. 27 p. 21 p. 67 pp...
...He ran his hands over the bare skin of her back„ „ "Please, Reinhard," she said, squirming gracefully away from him...
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...I know I have never worked anywhere where my superiors, no matter how shiftless, made less than I. If Mr...
...Not to make too much of a bad thing, but what does it say about the state of the culture when, at the end of the American century, we find that the best shows now on Broadway are poor revivals and, nothing being sacred, classics become parodies...
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...She smiled...
...I Did It Amway Mr...
...Correspondence (Continueclfrom page 12) acknowledging the force of Columbia Union's complaint, ordered the district court (which had earlier approved this discrimination) to document actual sectarian entanglement in the college's programs...
...Tell me, who's at fault...
...If anyone is to get the chance to fail at a Casablanca sequel, why not someone who lived through the era and VICTOR GOLD is The American Spectator's national correspondent...
...But for a vast number, it has been a means to financial freedom...
...No real feel for the material...
...But one wonders whether the same profound As Time Goes By: A Novel of Casablanca Michael Walsh Warner Books /420 pages / $25 REVIEWED BY Victor Gold M y father, a part-time casino gambler, once told the story of a blackjack player holding two tens and an ace who asked for another card...
...My stop," she said...
...David W. Witter's smack at Amway co-founder Jay Van Andel (Correspondence, TAS, December 1998) is explicable only if motivated by pure ignorance or pure malevolence...
...He was standing very close to her, and she could feel his breath on her shoulder...
...You want to shtup my daughter...
...Woody Allen as Humphrey Bogart...But wait: It all leads up to the story of how the world-weary future owner of Rick's Cafe met the first love of his life—not Ilsa in Paris, but Lois Rabinowitz on the Lower East side...
...Odd, I thought, that a writer whose literary oeuvre included such heart-thumpers as The First One-Hundred Years of Carnegie Hall should get the call to embellish one of my generation's most cherished classics...
...Witter would like to broaden his understanding of what constitutes a pyramid, he look in his encyclopedia under the heading "FICA...
...But given encouragement, there are always those players who can't resist a chance to do the best one better...
...Few ever sit down and write it...
...No, but I'm willing to learn...
...said Rick, mystified, not for the first time, by the female mind...
...Real name, Yitzik Baline...
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...The technique, that is, used by Francis Ford Coppola in his overrated sequel to The Godfather...
...It's the best...
...Therein lies both the challenge and the danger of writing a novel of Casablanca...
...Address: The American Spectator, P.O...
...This was (Rick's/Yitzik's) weekly mitzvah, going downtown to buy his mother a knish...
...We missed it...
...Forget Woody Allen...
...Same concept...
...Gevalt...
...The gefilte fish," she said...
...Witter dopily asserts that the top bananas in Amway make all the money while the peons do the work...
...We missed it...
...Round up the usual suspects...
...You married...
...Not a screenplay but a novel, on the order of the romantic potboiler a few years back that told Margaret Mitchell fans what happened to Scarlett O'Hara after Rhett said he didn't give a damn...
...It is grueling at first, but at a certain level, you step back and watch the residuals come in...
...As much as the next guy...
...He didn't mind visiting his mother from time to time, even if that meant having to listen to her kvell about his good looks and yiddische kopf and kvetch about his lack of a job...
...My solution has been to present the lives of the characters before and after the action of the movie, placing Rick Blaine, Ilsa Lund, Victor Laszlo, and the others in a larger historical context...
...So it is with some Amway distributors...
...They all, wouldn't you know, wound up in the same unlikely place: Prague, with Ilsa as Mata Hari and Rick, Captain Renault and Victor Laszlo as hit men in the plot to assassinate the villainous Major Strasser's SS boss, Reinhard Heydrich...
...Even if true (most successful distributors make more money than their sponsors), that is hardly sinister...
...But Michael Walsh's unintended humor aside, given the spirit of these times, what sequel can we next expect...
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...So much for what happens to a classic absent the spirit: We end up with Springtime for Reinhard...
...From this point on, it's pure Mel Brooks, as we move to the story of what happened to the surviving characters in Casablanca after their memorable fade-out on the airport tarmac that foggy night in Morocco...
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...Ever use a gun...
...Not that Michael Walsh went into this project without fair notice: "Everybody knows Casablanca," he writes in an explanatory epilogue...
...On second thought, don't tell me...
...I would recommend that if Mr...
...On the lam, it seems, from the New York gang wars of the early 1930's: He was riding the Second Avenue El down from his mother's apartment on East ii6th Street, having walked over to visit her from his dump in Washington Heights...
...Amway has been around since 1959 and oddly our zealous regulators have never noticed it is a pyramid...
...Other than Henry IV, Part Two and Second Corinthians, I'm hard put to find one that's worked...
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