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...writers go, F.X. Toole was not one of your precocious, dewy-eyed Iowa Writers' Workshop debutants. He attended the M.F.A. program of hard knocks. If his author's bio is to be believed, he was a taxi driver, saloon keeper, bullfighter (really?) and, most notably and relevantly, a boxing trainer and cut man. Toole (a pseudonym) was also the author of the story collection Rope Burns, best known for the short story Million Dollar Baby, which became a movie of the same name. Rope Burns was Toole's literary debut...
...Katy bar the door!" says a G.O.P. official. "Guess he'll have to fire up the engines on the campaign and let 'er rip." DeLay, awaiting trial for money laundering, never intended to fade away. He plans to give paid speeches and has signed a deal to have his bio penned by best-selling author Stephen Mansfield. But to run, DeLay would have to raise money fast: his campaign fund has well under $1 million left. At least he knows his would-be opponent well: ex-Congressman Nick Lampson's original district was eliminated in a redistricting engineered by DeLay...
...ballet with machismo. Compared with the slim, elegant Astaire, Kelly was Everyman, all man. And for a wonderful while, he did it all: sang, danced, acted, choreographed and directed. Singin' in the Rain is his masterpiece, but there's lots more to savor in Robert Trachtenberg's excellent 2002 bio...
...lavish expression of Cirque founder and boss Guy Lalibert?'s latest obsession: to merge the ballet-acrobat-theatrical Cirque style to modern music. He wants Delirium, with its Barnum & Bailey disco format, to fill nightclubs and arenas in large cities. Cirque is planning another Vegas show for 2008: a bio-evocation of Elvis...
...while teenagers in menacing face-paint take shifts as lookouts around the property, ready to battle the cops with tribal dance and felt costumes, the tree-dwellers are on their cell phones (charged by a solar-paneled, bio-diesel fueled truck parked outside) battling on several fronts. Since most of the farmers are Latinos who don't actually live right near the farm, and because the largely African-American neighborhood is the only area in Los Angeles to have lost jobs since 1992, the locals are on Horowitz's side: they'd rather raze the farm and build a warehouse...