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...publishers say a hit comedy show doesn't necessarily translate into a hit book. It needs a theme. Erwyn Applebaum, publisher of Bantam Books, which put Seinfeld and Reiser into print, says, "Now comedians who have never been known to read a book are thinking that they can write one." Robert Miller, publisher of Hyperion, claims his company wanted Allen to do a book well before Home Improvement became a hit: "This guy had made his reputation and (stand-up) act out of getting way deep into the complexities of male- female differences. That seemed like a very good subject...
...retail front, the racks of audio books that have sprouted in bookshops are appearing in video and record stores as well. "The biggest problem we faced in growing this business was a lack of consumer awareness," says Jenny Frost, vice president and publisher of Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio. "Now people are finding them in retail outlets, trying them and discovering they think they are great." Inevitably, specialty stores have begun to crop up. Houston's BookTronics is one of the largest to carry nothing but audio -- with 8,000 titles for sale and rent. "We call ourselves the bookstore...
...Hawking's new book, Black Holes and Baby Universes (Bantam; $21.95), is en route to stores and getting nearly as big a buildup as the latest John Grisham thriller. Why, when his days are already overcrowded with scientific meetings, lecture tours and the occasional sit-down with disabled kids, did he take the time to write a new book? "I had to pay for my nurses," Hawking says (or, rather, since he can't speak, his computer-driven voice synthesizer intones, in a voice something like Lawrence Welk...
...picture often has the flashy moves of a chess patzer. Phone books are smashed and chessmen trashed. Josh plays catch in a sepulchral chess club, inhabited by a veritable cuckoo's nest of chess nuts. The movie also distorts the chess education of this bantam Rocky. It has Josh learning almost equally from Pandolfini (Ben Kingsley) and a kindly street hustler (Laurence Fishburne). In fact, Pandolfini was the boy's main teacher. Kingsley does have a charismatic gravity and the carriage of -- Fred Waitzkin's phrase -- "a ruined aristocrat." In portraying a teacher whom Josh refers to as "a great...
...staged a triumphant show of her quirky, inventive choreography at Manhattan's City Center. Next came a stint in Hollywood doing the dances for I'll Do Anything (to be released in 1993), and then the publication of her intelligent, candid-to-a-fault autobiography, Push Comes to Shove (Bantam; $24.50). That's enough for most busy artists, but energy is Tharp's signature both in choreography and in life. She has now renewed her partnership with Mikhail Baryshnikov for a 24-city national tour that started two weeks ago in Columbus, Ohio, and extends until...