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Fiction. Final Installment — The game was Sunday so Saturday was their day for shopping and watching the sights. They walked thru town to the tune of cars honking their way along the street, youths hanging out the windows holding banners or flags of Japan or Argentina. Fans walked wearing their colors – It’s-a-boy blue and white for Argentina and the red rising-sun-on-white for Japan. Many wore the flags of their countries as capes. Faces were painted with the colors of their teams. At a sidewalk café a group of young boys crowded around a table that appeared to belong to some of the Argentine players.
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Recently finished writing screenplay ######BARFLY for the French director Barbet# Schroeder. Wrote the English language titles for Goddard’s recent movie, just out, I forgot the name of it. Marco Ferreri has just completed a movie, TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS, taken from some of my short stories, to be #####released at the Venice Film Festival, #### Ben Gazzara plays Chinaski. MYTHOGRAPH films has just completed a tv movie of my short story, THE KILLERS.
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Literature: When I first started writing about the process of winning, I thought about the lion as the ultimate symbol of the winner. After all, he wasn’t the biggest (i.e. the elephant), he wasn’t the smartest (i.e. the chimpanzee), but he was the undisputed King of the Jungle. How come? Since I couldn’t find a lion to talk to, I settled for my cat, Zorba. After all, like the lion, his cousin, he had royal attitude.

