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...CRAMER VS. CRAMER: Kirkus is bullish about "Confessions of a Street Addict" by James J. Cramer (Simon & Schuster; May 13), giving it a starred review. "Wall Street's most notorious bull bares all in this typically over-the-top memoir. If Alan Greenspan was the superego of the '90s economy, Cramer was surely its libido. This memoir hopscotches between his trademark hyperbole and a peculiar form of self-abnegation (he never seems happier than when flagellating himself). Wall Street-savvy readers will particularly enjoy Cramer's blow-by-blow account of the late-'90s market. The IPO for Cramer...
These days Cramer pursues a media career full time, mainly on CNBC and Bloomberg Radio. In his book, Confessions of a Street Addict, you learn why he gave up trading for a living. Basically, Cramer got fed up with Cramer--not liking the obsessed lunatic he'd become and deciding to quit before he went certifiably bonkers. A lot of folks thought he had passed that threshold long...
...robust ode to the forces of nature as icicles form on their whiskers. "Finnmark lad, you found your grave/Out on the awesome wave ..." Their songs are interspersed, as the seasons change, with glimpses into individual lives. The men - among them an agnostic church organist, a reformed drug addict and a bellicose communist - are kindly and ornery, childlike and cynical, flirty and stern. The camera lingers over small details: as one man bemoans his political passivity, his kettle boils furiously. Jensen is an ennobler who cushions and elevates moments of personal vulnerability with footage of the whole choir performing its hymns...
...sex—with however many people, of whatever gender—was hardly newsworthy within a crowd where anything seemed to go. Kerouac himself was an alcoholic and a Bezedrine addict and died of alcohol-related causes at the age of 47. He faced frequent bouts of depression and spent time in jail, first as an accessory to murder and again for having not paid child support. He was also staunchly racist, according to Beat historian James Cambell...
Burroughs was a renowned wild-man and morphine addict, notorious for having cut off his own finger. In 1951, Burroughs turned to his wife at a party, and with the words, “I guess it’s about time for our William Tell act,” raised a gun and shot her in the head...