FORCED FEEDINGS

by Maxine Herman ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 1979

Troubles? You wanna hear about troubles? Just listen to actress Natasha Dawn Finn, n‚e Finklestein, who drags herself to hopeless ""cattle call"" auditions to humiliate herself by doing a ""kooky, funny"" Clytemnestra; whose answering service misplaces her messages, thus zapping her out of two callbacks and possible roles; who endures Passover dinner with her family in Brooklyn, at which her aunts forcibly hold her down and shave her armpits; whose father is not all-there in the head; and whose boyfriend Angelo has a mock coronary the first time they try a little hanky-panky. But things take a turn. Natasha gets a part in a Hollywood movie and ships off to L.A., taking Angelo and best-friend Irma and her father along with her. But Angelo & Natasha & Irma don't do too well … trois, leaving Natasha alone with her father, who in due course gets himself taken over by a cult of ""visceralists"" who drink raw eggs and commute between universes. So--back to New York, where the film is a thermonuclear bomb. But Natasha was luckily cut out of it anyway, and new she has a nice new apartment and the chance to play a slice of bologna in a TV commercial. . . . Herman slings this all unceasingly, loudly, mile-a-minute; open any page and you feel like you've inserted your tongue into an electrical socket. Apart from the infectious energy, however, it's exactly like any one of a dozen other frizzed-out, single-girl kvetch extravaganzas.

Pub Date: April 1, 1979

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Evans

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1979

Categories: FICTION