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...Alex Robinson's "Box Office Poison," (Top Shelf Productions; 602 pg.; $29.95), has nothing to do with Hollywood, but is instead a phone-book-sized story of friends and lovers in their twenties living and working in New York City. The central character, Sherman, slaves away at a Manhattan bookstore while struggling with aspirations of being a writer and coping with his self-destructive girlfriend. Meanwhile his best-friend, Ed, employed as the assistant to an old-time comicbook "legend," begins a crusade to earn his craggy boss compensation for the lucrative characters he signed away fifty years...
...Neither Alex Robinson's "Box Office Poison," nor Dean Haspiel's "Opposable Thumbs" are the ground-breaking comix work of "Raw." But they nicely represent two kinds of New York experience: urban opportunity and urban decay...
...hackers are swapping digitized video files, raising the prospect of Napsterized TV.) The flip side is that we may lose the common experience of having watched a few agreed-on classics: as TV becomes more like books, we may find that access to the complete Keats or the complete Alex P. Keaton doesn't mean everyone will check it out. In the days of the three-channel universe, TV professor Thompson could count on students' having seen the same set of familiar shows like Andy Griffith. Now, he says, "I find myself having to put episodes of That Girl...
...Alex Mehta, 31, a 152-lb. barrister, had always dreamed of beating up a judge. And last month he got his chance at the Royal National Hotel in London, where he fought Phil Maier, 43, a 150-lb. judge from New York City. Wearing gloves and headgear, they pounded each other for four rounds. Mehta won, but there were no hard feelings. The next day, the fighters had lunch together. Such camaraderie isn't unusual on the white-collar boxing circuit, where Wall Street traders, City of London bankers and other execs routinely pummel one another. Bouts are organized...
...addition to the two eight-boats, Harvard also sent a pair of rowers to compete in the Silver Goblets and Nickall’s Challenge Cup. Alex Chastain-Chapman and Graham O’Donoghue represented Harvard in this high-level pair event...