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...life. Filled out with reminiscences from every B-list celeb who ever came within 50 yds. of a VH1 camera (Ed's Michael Ian Black, Good Day Live's Jillian Barberie, porn star Ron Jeremy), it's a bit skimpy on analysis. (Here's "actor-comedian" Mitch Silpa on Carol Burnett's Tarzan yell: "Her Tarzan yell was great.") But you could argue, say, that the mainstream success of Cheech and Chong's drug comedy Up in Smoke, which VH1 lauds but IFC ignores, says more about the '70s' anything-goes Zeitgeist than McCabe & Mrs. Miller...
...DIED. CAROL MATTHAU, 78, gossipy memoirist and widow of actor Walter Matthau, whose friendships with the elite of New York City cafe society she wittily recounted in her 1992 book, Among the Porcupines; of a brain aneurysm; in New York City. Before her 41-year marriage to Matthau, she was twice wed to playwright William Saroyan. She had a long friendship with Truman Capote, who, she claimed, modeled the character of Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's after...
...DIED. CAROL SHIELDS, 68, Canadian novelist whose graceful, sympathetic portrayals of ordinary people, often married women, led to a flood of honors, including the Pulitzer Prize for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which detailed nearly nine decades in the life of a housewife turned gardening columnist; of complications from breast cancer; in Victoria, B.C. Rejecting the idea that fiction must be high concept, she said, "I wanted wallpaper in my novels, cereal bowls, cupboards ... head colds, cramps...
...says a woman named Carol-Ann, who works as a custodian at the Phoenix S.K. final club, was the person who compelled him to learn about the workers’ lives and their experiences at Harvard...
Halpern discovered that Carol-Ann, a single mother, ate her dinner each evening in a soup kitchen with her three children. After tape-recording her story, he has gone on to interview approximately 35 workers to date...