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...Dick?s stories were not filmed in his lifetime, which ended all too soon, at 53, in 1982. Since then the cult science-fiction writer has became famous, widely-read and much imitated on the big screen. Lawrence Sutin?s terrific biography paints a full-figure portrait of the demonized genius. Even if you?re not a Philaddickt, the book is a swell read. (The Dick column provoked an aggrieved e-mail, which I?ll get to later...
MEANWHILE IN ABU DHABI... Back With a Whimper Fans of Comical Ali - former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, whose reality-defying comments on the Iraq war earned him a cult following around the world - were delighted to hear that he was back on the air. Sadly, in his first appearance as a pundit for Abu Dhabi TV, al-Sahhaf limited himself to quite plausible comments on Saddam Hussein's arrest, which he didn't even bother to deny. It's not clear, however, whether he has conceded that there are in fact U.S. troops on the streets...
...superstar Jay-Z, with whom Dash launched the company from his Harlem apartment eight years ago, or even Dirt McGirt, a.k.a. Ol' Dirty Bastard, another player on the Roc-A-Fella roster. Dash listens to a fiddle and starts to bop his head; he has settled on the 1980s cult hit Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners, whose Irish lead singer introduces the chorus by belting, "Toora loora toora...
DIED. LOTTE BERK, 90, German-born dancer who created a body-conditioning program based on a hybrid of yoga, dance and calisthenics; in Hungerford, England. The Lotte Berk method--with its sometimes suggestive positions and names (e.g., the Prostitute)--attracted a cult following among women in swinging 1960s London...
When it comes to recasting films as Broadway musicals, Meehan's got cachet in movie circles. Last year he helped turn John Waters' 1988 cult film Hairspray into a Broadway blockbuster. Waiting in the wings--until he completes revisions of the London hit Bombay Dreams for New York audiences--is Sylvester Stallone's Rocky...