Night-table Reading

John Badham {director): The Complete HyperCard 2.0 Handbook, by Danny Goodman (Bantam). "This is a really fun exegesis of the HyperTalk language for the Macintosh computer. It's finite, precise, and very relaxing. "

Charlotte Moss (interior designer): Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman, by Stefan Zweig (Garden City). "Ever since I saw the Hamlet at Versailles, I have been wanting to get into the head of the woman who built it."

Roy Scheider (actor): Timebends: A Life, by Arthur Miller (HarperCollins). "A powerful chronicle of the theater and our times, by a vulnerable man open to change."

Michael Ontkean (actor):Iron John: A Book About Men,by Robert Bly (Addison-Wesley). "Ancient myths from primordial swamps by the poet from Moose Lake, who loves a woman in two worlds."