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...also, curiously, the record of a pair of very hard-working crooks. Gere, as Irving, and Alfred Molina, as Dick Susskind, his timorous but devoted research assistant, probably put as much effort into researching their fake book as they would have for an authentic one. Since all biographies and autobiographies are in some sense fictional constructs, it could be (cynically) argued that their product was probably no less authentic than more respectable entries in the field. Indeed, in the aftermath of their effort, Irving has often insisted that theirs was a terrific book. Whether or not that's true, both...
...Clockwork Orange,” and “McCabe and Mrs. Miller.” His latest project is a book detailing the early days of his career, called “White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s,” which opens with Dick Clark taking the helm of a show called “American Bandstand.”“We hated Dick Clark,” Boyd says. “That’s when I started listening to old jazz and blues, looking for wackier stuff.” Boyd argues...
...distinctions more openly, frankly and daringly than before. It used to be assumed that people were free to joke about their own kind (with some license for black comedians to talk about how white people dance). Crossing those lines was the province of the occasional "socially conscious artist," like Dick Gregory or Lenny Bruce, who was explicit about his goals: in Bruce's words, to repeat "'niggerniggernigger' until the word [didn't] mean anything anymore...
...Talk About Books You Haven’t Read,” he candidly admits to having lectured on books he has never read. I always knew that most of the class hadn’t read “Moby Dick,” but I never thought to ask whether my prof had.Bayard’s book is in some ways a higher brow cousin of CollegeHumor.com’s “Faking It,” a manual for how to talk about things, specifically books, about which you are ignorant...
...being less green than they claim [March 26]. I suggest that for Krauthammer's next targets he look at more profound sources of the problem: auto companies that lobby to keep mileage standards low; energy companies that pay scientists to deny the human role in global warming; Vice President Dick Cheney, who pooh-poohed energy conservation and apparently met in secret with energy-company executives to create the country's energy policy; and President George W. Bush, who reneged on his campaign promise to regulate carbon output. Krauthammer could also report his own carbon output and compare his efforts...