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...generally had mucho fun - as in his 1992 "autobiography" of Marilyn Monroe. A mustachioed Asturias-born academic, he studied philosophy in Madrid and New York City and taught literature in Madrid and the U.S. Blood on the Saddle is your basic science-fiction-detective-western-literary romance, peppered with comic detail like a lowlife informant with a sideline in purloined celebrity X-rays ("A colonoscope of Ana Belén? It's yours. Plates of Julio Iglesias' prostate? You'll have 'em.") Reig's gumshoe has an unusual specialty: finding fictional characters who take on a life of their...
...parents, I started wearing yellow cords, saddle shoes and red-flannel shirts that I didn't tuck in. I became more outgoing and created an ideal high school life for myself: I was head of the student council; I wrote plays and performed in them; I drew comic books called School Daze. In them, I created a world of my friends and myself in which I was the hero...
...conscious at the time, but the parallels between my reinvention in high school after Betty rejected me and the true reinvention of my life are remarkable. My comic strip was just like the magazine--an idealized story of my life, with myself at center stage. I reinvented myself as this other person and used the magazine as the promotional tool to accomplish that. Instead of the Puritan world that my folks accepted and, from my perspective, paid the price for, I created a world for myself...
...delivers the line with the subtle comic timing you would expect of Jeff Daniels. In Squid, though, viewers' laughs turn to gasps and back again as Bernard tries simultaneously to discipline and dazzle his sons. Linney is superb, and the kid actors are scary-good. But it is selfish, flailing Dad who wins the match. As the underloved novelist, Daniels has created his masterpiece. --Reported by Steven Frank/Toronto
DIED. DON ADAMS, 82, ex-stand-up comic who achieved eternal pop-culture fame, and three Emmys, as the bumbling yet vain secret agent Maxwell Smart ("Sorry about that, Chief") on TV's 1960s spy spoof Get Smart; in Los Angeles. Unlike James Bond, Adams' hilariously unsuave Agent 86 ate classified messages before remembering to read them, dialed calls on a phone hidden in a pair of high-tech but often malfunctioning shoes and insisted that his partner, 99 (Barbara Feldon), let him handle the delicate jobs--which he promptly botched. Adams' later roles included the voice of Inspector Gadget...