Diane Keaton um, let's see ... Women are presumed to be dull. ... Now a determined trend spotter can point to a handful of new films whose makers think that women can bear the dramatic weight of a production alone, or virtually so. Then there is Diane Keaton in "Looking for Mr. Goodbar". As Theresa Dunn, Keaton dominates this raunchy, risky, violent dramatization of Judith Rossner's 1975 novel about a schoolteacher who cruises singles bars. In addition to acting, Keaton has stated that "<nowiki>[I]</nowiki> had a lifelong ambition to be a singer." She had a brief, unrealized career as a recording artist
Judith Rossner exploration of the intimate, complex connections between food and emotion..." Rossner published her last novel, "Perfidia" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), in 1997 to extraordinary reviews. "Pefidia" (which means "treachery" in Spanish) was, like "Looking for Mr. Goodbar", inspired by a real-life murder. A "chilling" story of an abusive mother and the daughter who kills her, the novel is "a scorching portrait of attachment and loss." Hailed as "[r]elentless, suspenseful, and absolutely captivating," "Perfidia" is a novel which "burns hypnotically." In 2002, Rossner married educational publisher Stanley Leff, with whom she had begun a relationship in 1985. Rossner died from complications of