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Umberto Eco looks like a genial mentor, white-bearded and approachable, his comfortable rotundity settled deep in the softest armchair of his Milan living room. Yet the 73-year-old academic and author, condemned to international celebrity by his 1980 debut novel The Name of the Rose, is not without thorns. Today's discourse - ranging from his newest work of fiction, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, to politics, religion and neckties - bristles with sharp observations. Avuncular he may seem, but this famous European intellectual has not mellowed with age. Age, memory and nostalgia are, however, the central themes...
...guitars or electronic squeaks; just his voice, the piano and occasional strings. "Because of musicians in the last decade like Fersen, people are paying attention, which opened the doors for others," he says. Delerm has rushed in where others have already trod. His two albums - a self-titled 2002 debut, followed by Kensington Square last year - have already sold a combined 600,000 discs. Raised near Rouen, a cathedral city on the Seine 120 km north of Paris, Delerm is the child of two literature professors. His father, Philippe, is a successful author in his own right, having penned...
Since his film debut in 1990, Giamatti, 37, has appeared in plenty of Terminal-or-worse-type fare, usually stepping in from the edge of the frame to provide a memorable jolt of misanthropy or cluelessness that makes the star--be it Jim Carrey (Man on the Moon), Martin Lawrence (Big Momma's House) or Ben Affleck (Paycheck)--appear heroic by comparison. Giamatti finally got the chance to move to the middle of the screen in 2003's American Splendor and 2004's Sideways, and he infused comic-book-writing depressive Harvey Pekar and wine-loving, self-hating failed novelist...
...whole thing blows up, of course, at the climactic get-together where Mark gets progressively more drunk, his horny friend gets less cautious and Ingrid allows herself to hang around for the free drinks. Astutely observed, snappily written and finely drawn, Karl Stevens' "Guilty" makes for an impressive debut...
...Troy on stage and the white girls down front dancing for him." Those who say the debate about segregation vs. integration is strictly musical usually point to Charley Pride, a genuine black superstar who had 29 No. 1 country hits from 1966 to 1989. But when Pride made his debut, his label didn't send out publicity photos or put him on album covers, and while many black artists have since given country a shot (see box), the absence of another significant black face between Pride's retirement and Cowboy Troy's start suggests that some listeners, at least, care...