Word: dears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SCARLETT by Alexandra Ripley (Warner Books; $24.95). This gilding-the- cornflowe r sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind is at last in the bookstores, amid megabucks of hype. And frankly, my dear, it's not worth a damn...
...screen the public record of her childhood. Anyone can. You can re-view her evolution from tadpole to tomboy and beyond: in the Coppertone commercial, the Disney pictures, the sitcoms, Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone. And you can scan the interviews she gave to magazines from age 11 onward. Dear reader, we have in our possession a tape of a lunchroom chat you had in seventh grade. Care to hear what you said? Care to be held...
...MORRISON: HYMNS TO THE SILENCE (Polydor). Twenty-one new songs by one of rock's greatest and most idiosyncratic creative spirits. Bluesy, mystical, introspective, demanding, demented, resolutely unique: Morrison reigns and remains rock's own dear Celtic bard, an electrified James Joyce...
...Between the States with the War Between the Sexes. It was a hard act to follow, even for Mitchell, who died in 1949 after she was struck by a car on Peachtree Street. She had steadfastly refused to write a sequel, preferring the icy finality of Rhett's, "My dear, I don't give a damn" (Gable threw in the "Frankly"). Yet Scarlett's final aria, "Tomorrow is another day," left the door open...
...English-speaking world has chucked a multimillion-dollar career, ended his 16-year marriage and stopped eating nearly everything that tastes good, all in order to carry out an uncompromising and very grown-up mission: to alarm the rest of humankind into taking better care of Our Dear, Dear Mother. Mother Earth, that...