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Radio is King's chosen medium, and the transition to TV has not been easy. Two years ago, he made his national TV debut on a misconceived syndicated program on which he was placed in front of a studio audience and forced to race through four to five interviews a show (on radio he spends two hours with each guest). Says he: "They were trying to make me Merv Griffin...
...films that swamp our eyes and yank at our hearts. Cinematographer Gu Changwei has shot many of Chinese cinema's most imperial tours de force?Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum and Ju Dou, Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, Jiang Wen's Devils at the Doorstep. But his directorial debut Peacock, surprise winner of the Silver Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, is a bird of a far less flashy feather. A portrait of a family's struggles in a small Chinese city in the 1970s, Peacock draws its considerable power from its complex script...
...myth that you no longer believe in, especially when it’s more or less about you. But if there’s one thing that Miracle on 34th Street—and, come to think of it, the lukewarm reviews for Ross Douthat’s debut tome—have taught us, it is that nobody likes a stickler for the truth. There is no real harm, I suppose, in capitalizing on the myth of the supernaturally brilliant and accomplished Harvardian—so long as we don’t buy into it ourselves...
With a hot Saturday sun playing the role of spotlight, an eager baseball audience was treated to the debut of The Steffan Wilson Show in the newly renovated bullpen of O’Donnell Field...
DIED. FRANK CONROY, 69, who laid the groundwork for modern confessional memoirs with his acclaimed 1967 debut Stop-Time, an unsentimental chronicle of his painfully nomadic, picaresque childhood; of colon cancer; in Iowa City. The sometime jazz pianist mentored scores of young writers, many of whom became successful novelists, during 18 years as head of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the country's most prestigious creative-writing program...