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...readers by dint of sheer charisma (and some aid from Mark Darcy). Admittedly, those adventures include perhaps the weak point of the novel, when Bridget is framed for smuggling drugs in Thailand, which seems to be the excitement-and-terror locale du jour (see Brokedown Palace or The Beach). Out of urban London, Bridget's neuroticism seems hopelessly out of context: for all her moaning in her diary, a lot of the humor of the novel derives from the fact that her life is rather good, actually. And her performance of "Like a Virgin" in a Thai prison...
...Jones Diary, which like Potter was initially feared too British in character to sell in America, was overwhelming and the book eventually sold 4 million copies world wide. It wasn't solely a publishing phenom, either; the surprise felt by critics when what seemed to be merely a Cosmo Beach Book of the Week actually turned out to be a well-crafted piece was palpable. Indeed, the back cover contains an endorsement from Salman Rushdie ("a brilliant comic creation...
...mistake of playing an exacta straight instead of both ways, and was roundly rebuked. To each story was ascribed a moral: never correct a wrong ticket, always pay attention to the names and always box the runners in an exacta. Everybody seemed full of oral histories, from the Rockaway Beach set in their sharkshin suits to the Rastafarians who ringed the downstairs paddock and called out insults and encouragement to the jockeys before every race...
...around the city. They're greeted by a madman's dreamscape: castles made of sand, built with bags of mob money and later rebuilt with the bounties of multinational entertainment cartels. The scene is almost as hot as the desert itself. The Beautiful People congregate nightly at The Beach and Club Rio. If that doesn't work out, there are always the cheap whores walking the street down by Circus Circus. If that doesn't work out, there's always a cheap room and $1 blackjack waiting back at the Western. This is Vegas--a tiny slice of hell just...
...hand of a San Diego multimillionaire (barely; his fortune is estimated at $2 million) in what amounted to a beauty pageant minus the class and intellectual heft. There was a "beachwear contest," because, host Jay Thomas rationalized, Mr. Moneybags wanted his lady love to be "as comfortable on the beach as he is." There was a "personality test," in which 10 semifinalists answered questions along the lines of how they'd spend his money and, by the way, would they mind if he went to strip clubs? There was Rockwell--picked from some 100 well-endowed lonelyhearts--watching from...