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...didn?t say what he proposed.) ?By her midteens, Phyllis was regularly getting her photo in the New York Times as a bright young star on the social scene,? we learn from Stephen Miller?s admirable obit in the Sun. ?Adams?s debut [in 1941] was a stunning affair at the St. Regis Roof, reported in full in the Times, with the debutante receiving guests ?before a bower of southern smilax and woodwardia ferns,? and wearing an off-the-shoulder sky-blue gown ?trimmed with small ostrich feathers tipped with silver.?? The 16-year-old was groomed to stardom...
...played by Meryl Streep) intrepidly investigates the work of eccentric orchid thief John Laroche (Chris Cooper) for a New Yorker article and a book. She also snorts psychotropic orchid extracts, brandishes—and fires—a gun and poses nude for a website while engaged in an affair with Laroche...
Partly because one woman's dignified is another man's straitlaced, Allen seems to be on a mission to appear looser. In another upcoming film, Sally Potter's Yes, she's a woman having an affair that crosses racial and religious lines. And finally, the shyest girl in the class is taking on the fastest-talker's job. She's co-producing a film about a group of working-class Irish women who go to Lourdes, France. Her job has been (partly) to get Maggie Smith and Kathy Bates to sign on. "I've never been on the phone...
...three IIT students who refuse to make that trade-off, choosing instead to study less and play more. Hari, Alok and Ryan sleep, stumble and cheat their way through Manufacturing Processes and Applied Mechanics to leave room for bigger priorities: vodka, weed and Pink Floyd. Throw in a love affair with a professor's daughter, and you've got every Indian teen's dream. "It's amazing how happy one can be," realizes narrator Hari, "with low expectations of one's self...
Thursday next is a detective in charge of solving crimes that happen in books. Which is to say, she literally goes into books and solves crimes there. If, say, somebody were to kidnap Jane Eyre out of Jane Eyre (which happened in The Eyre Affair, the first Thursday Next novel), Thursday would be on the case. This is what the British call silliness, and people generally find it either dismal or delightful. If you're in the latter camp, prepare to be delighted by Jasper Fforde's Something Rotten (Viking; 385 pages), the fourth book in the Next series...