TOUCHING THE VOID,

Sophie dear,' I said. 'Are you in love with him - with this spider-man?'

'Oh, don't call him that - please - we can't any of us help being what we are. His name's Gordon. He's kind to me, David. He's fond of me. You've got to have as little as I have to know how much that means. You've never known loneliness. You can't understand the awful emptiness that's waiting all round us here. I'd have given him babies gladly, if I could. ... I - oh, why do they do that to us? Why didn't they kill me? It would have been kinder than this...'

She sat without a sound. The tears squeezed out from under the closed lids and ran down her face. I took her hand between my own.
I remembered watching. The man with his arm linked in the woman's, the small figure on top of the pack-horse waving back to me as they disappeared into the trees. Myself desolate, a kiss still damp on my
cheek, a lock tied with a yellow ribbon in my hand. I looked at her now, and my heart ached.

My first love is film, always. I wanted to be an actor. That was my dream as a young man,

We are going to push 'SNL' back because we are doing 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' for one hour,

My first love is film, always. I wanted to be an actor. That was my dream as a young man, ... Now it's a whole lot better to be the guy behind the camera. This is the area where I really do my best stuff. It doesn't matter what you look like or if your hair's right.

They were putting all the emphasis on her 4½-octave range, and that's not what separates Jessica from all the rest,