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'Mad Men' creator delivers big with first novel

By ANN LEVIN reads like a screenplay, mother whose lowlife boy- into a building under con-
Associated Press down to its eccentric capi- friends like to wake him up struction, and I saw a man
At 134 pages, Matthew talization. Characters are in the middle of the night working there stare at her
Weiner's "Heather, The To- sketched in quickly, with to use him as "a punching with threatening intensity.
tality" is best consumed in just the right amount of de- bag or a parlor trick." By I don't have any daugh-
one bite like those exquisite tail to delineate a type. the time he's old enough ters, but what I wrote down
pastries that line the cases Mark and Karen Break- to join a construction crew was, 'What if her father saw
of the French bakery/cafes stone would appear to be renovating the Break- that?'"
on Manhattan's Upper East among society's winners. stones' apartment building, "Heather, The Totality" is his
Side. The kind of people He has a job in finance, he's done time for assault answer. Beyond its chilling
who patronize those tony earning enough so she can and committed far worse portrait of America's social
joints, especially for Sun- be a Manhattan-style, stay- crimes. and economic divide, the
day brunch and often with at-home mom. Although By then, Heather has ma- novel raises a number of
their private-schooled kids they don't have a child tured into a beautiful, ide- thorny questions: whether
in tow, take center stage in until relatively late in life, alistic and rebellious teen- a "good" man could be a
Weiner's suspenseful debut when they do, Heather, the ager; Bobby has become killer. Whether a "bad" man
novel. namesake of the book, be- obsessed with her; and violent and morally ambig- might be transfigured. How
Best known as the creator comes their totality. mild-mannered Mark sens- uous, comes swiftly. everyone, rich and poor
of "Mad Men" and a writer Meanwhile, on the other es danger. Needless to say, Describing the inspira- alike, is complicit in their
on "The Sopranos," Weiner side of the Hudson River, the two men are headed tion for the book, Weiner fate and trapped in their
writes with maximum econ- Bobby Klasky is growing for a showdown, and the wrote, "I walked past this delusions. And how no one
omy. The book practically up with a heroin-addicted ending, which is shocking, beautiful schoolgirl going ever gets off scot-free.q
Ben Affleck says he wants to be 'part of the solution'

By SAM GOLDING part of the solution.” Losique has defended Af-
Associated Press After condemning Har- fleck, saying the actor’s
LONDON (AP) — Ben Af- vey Weinstein’s actions behavior was done for
fleck says the storm of last month, Affleck was the show only and she has
sexual harassment allega- forced to defend his own described him as a gentle-
tions engulfing Hollywood conduct. He apologized man.
has led him to examine his for groping the actress Hi- Speaking Sunday, Affleck
own behavior. larie Burton on camera in said two things need to
In an interview Sunday 2003 when she was a host happen, that “more wom-
with The Associated Press on MTV’s “Total Request en need to be pushed to
for the superhero film “Jus- Live.” power” and that sexual
tice League,” Affleck said Another video from 2004 harassment has to also
Actor Ben Affleck poses for photographers at a photo call to he’s “looking at my own showed Affleck pulling be “a men’s issue” where
promote the film 'Justice League', in London, Saturday, Nov. 4, behavior and addressing Montreal TV host Anne- guys call out inappropri-
2017. that and making sure I’m Marie Losique onto his lap. ate behavior.q
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Rose Marie's

Continued from Pag 29 'Wait for your laugh.'" She
"Carl, if you knew I had all could be tough, especially
those talents, you'd have when it counted. Her ex-
given me a bigger part," perience on the set of the
she pointedly teased Rein- 1954 movie "Top Banana" il-
er about her supporting lustrates how tiresomely re-
role on his hit show. petitive Hollywood is when
As he recalls in the film, it comes to sexual harass-
Rose Marie was in the ment.
shadow of breakout star "You couldn't get it up if the
Mary Tyler Moore, a posi- flag went by," Rose Marie
tion that chafed on the recalls telling a producer
spotlight-loving Rose Marie who promised her more
but which Reiner warned screen time in exchange
she must accept or quit. for sex. She rebuffed his ad-
She stayed, and Van Dyke vances and saw her role
said he was made better reduced. "She is a great
for working alongside her role model, with everything This cover image released by Little, Brown and Company shows "Heather, The Totality," a novel
and Morey Amsterdam, she's gone through and ex- by Matthew Weiner. Associated Press
Rose Marie's longtime perienced," said Christina
friend and colleague who Wise. "She didn't have the godfathers. He saw his tal- devotion to her big-band gests in the film that Rose
played fellow writer Buddy. same kind of support wom- ented offspring as a reve- musician husband, Bobby Marie was more focused
"I learned comedy from en have today, and it's still nue source and, according Guy, whose early death is on her career than mother-
those two," Van Dyke said, a struggle." The chief heavy to the film, kept the money the reason a black ribbon hood. But she acknowledg-
with Rose Marie chiding in "Wait for Your Laugh" is she earned — millions in to- routinely is part of her trade- es the drive to perform that
him when he jumped in too Rose Marie's father, whose day's dollars — and tried to mark bouffant hairstyle. has her mom puzzling over
quickly after delivering a connections brought mob- block her from marrying. Georgiana Guy Rodrigues, how she could do her night-
punch line. "She would say, sters into her life as friendly The film honors Rose Marie's the couple's daughter, sug- club act sitting down.q