![]() ![]() Narrated by an actor with an aristocratic pedigree, Snobs is a delicious social satire set in 1990s England, in which a beautiful middle-class young woman claws her way into British society by marrying a dim-witted earl. As the daughter of actor Lionel Stander (a contemporary of Welles), I wanted to learn how Feder managed to survive with-and more often, without-a famous, larger-than-life father. IN MY FATHER'S SHADOW: A Daughter Remembers Orson Wellesįrom the moment I saw IN MY FATHER'S SHADOW: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles in the Algonquin Books fall catalog, I knew that I must read the book and speak to author Chris Welles Feder. Thus begins a journey that contrasts the naïve debutantes and would-be debonair beaux of the London Season of 1968 with their surprisingly altered (or not) selves 40 years later. PAST IMPERFECT opens with its anonymous narrator, a member of the minor aristocracy, being contacted by Damian Baxter, an ex-friend from Cambridge whom he hasn’t seen in decades. And more than 20 years after his father’s death, artist Philip Smith wrote it. By the end of the decade, he had become a psychic healer under the tutelage of spirit guides. But Lew Smith’s life took an even stranger turn in the 1960s. ![]() It was unusual enough that a Jew who fled pogroms in Poland should become the go-to guy for Miami home décor. ![]()
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