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"GOODBYE, COLUMBUS," Philip Roth's prize-winning novella about a decent, edgy Jewish boy from Newark who falls in love with a rich, tennis-playing Jewish princess from Short Hills, has been...
- Review/Film; It's Goodbye, Columbus, As Torquemada Waves
The French-born George Corraface, who resembles a robust,...
- Goodbye, Columbus! - The New York Times
Interview with Gavin Menzies, amateur British historian...
- Review/Film; It's Goodbye, Columbus, As Torquemada Waves
Aug 22, 1992 · The French-born George Corraface, who resembles a robust, healthy Al Pacino, plays Columbus as a fellow who smiles a lot, has a set of extremely white teeth, enchants the ladies and is handy...
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The New York Times ' film critic, Vincent Canby, liked the film but was annoyed that it strayed from Roth's work. Canby wrote: Thus, at its center, Goodbye, Columbus is sharp and honest. However, the further they are removed from the main situation, the more the subsidiary characters, lightly sketched in the novella, become overstuffed, blintz ...
Jan 5, 2003 · Interview with Gavin Menzies, amateur British historian whose new book, 1421, argues that Chinese discovered America 70 years before Columbus; Menzies says Zheng He, Chinese eunuch admiral also...
Jul 14, 2022 · But “Goodbye, Columbus,” adapted from Roth’s 1959 breakout novella, managed to capture those issues Roth seemed most interested in –– relationships, Jewish culture in America, sexuality, class...
Apr 6, 2017 · A story of a summer romance, a satirical sketch of suburban arriviste Jews in the fifties—sure. But when I stumbled on Philip Roth’s first book on the shelf of my high school library, “Goodbye, Columbus” seemed to me above all a brief against marriage.
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Sep 10, 2012 · Self-effacingly directed by Peerce, the film stakes everything on minute observation of detail: the ghastly gusto of mealtimes in the parvenu dining-room; the loose-limbed insolence in every ...
