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...idea was to get around the primordial fear that we all have when we hear about the environment and think, is this going to kill us,” Weisman said. “In my book, we get beyond this concern because we’re all dead by page one.” Once it gets beyond the end of mankind, the book examines how the earth would react without the daily pressure of 6.6 billion humans. After extensive travel and research, Weisman concluded that nature eventually would rehabilitate. “No matter how much we have...
...just 25 when he became abruptly and unmanageably famous. It was 1948, America was looking for its Great War Novel, and there was Norman Mailer, with his jug-handle ears, his curly hair and The Naked and the Dead. The first of his 10 novels and more than two dozen other titles, it became a huge best seller. But fame soon turned fickle on him, or maybe vice versa. Mailer was too flighty, impious and vainglorious to fill the role of anointed American writer as the '50s conceived it, so for a while his reputation dimmed. But in the decades...
...long time, there were no crowds. He had one 3 p.m. gig at a drive-in theater, in front of an audience in a dozen cars with speakers attached to the windows. If people liked a joke, they honked. Occasionally he played to dead-empty rooms...
...everything, from bodily functions to sexual fantasies--a turnoff for squeamish honchos who could have promoted her career--made stand-up comic Marilyn Martinez a heroine among her fans. The racy, unapologetically "fat" Martinez had tiny roles on TV (My Wife and Kids) and in film (Pauly Shore Is Dead) but mostly liked to discomfit her male-dominated industry in gigs with all-Latina troupes such as the Hot and Spicy Mamitas and the Latin Divas of Comedy, with whom she anchored a cable special this year. She was 52 and had colon cancer...
...you’re the spider, by the way—best embodies the album’s alienated tone. As the band disinterestedly shifts from lazy funk to Radiohead’s electronic quaver, Morrison’s bored vocals are an emotional dead weight: “How can a body move the speed of light / And still find itself in such a rut?” On “Gyroscope,” the band jerks along through the first verse, negotiating frequent time changes. Jason Caddell’s guitar and Joe Easley?...