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...enlarging but never completed novel. In time he put the ballooning manuscript aside and started a new novel about a pot-smoking college professor with his own long-unfinished novel. Wonder Boys was a wry 1995 book that became a witty movie last year with Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr. But it was Kavalier & Clay that made the superabundance of Chabon's gifts superapparent. The story of two boys who invent a Nazi-bashing comic-book hero during World War II, it is an irresistible tale of a lost New York City that is also a superb coming...
...first blush, the idea of a tennis champ's making a meaningful contribution to the craft of acting sounds about as plausible as Robert Downey Jr.'s winning the U.S. Open. But not only is SERENA WILLIAMS, the world's top-ranked player in women's tennis, taking acting lessons, she's also getting offers for small parts and cameos. Alas, being a professional athlete is more time-consuming than bartending or waitressing, the usual day jobs for aspiring actresses. "A lot of people want me, but my schedule right now is kind of conflicting with my acting," she said...
...ROBERT DOWNEY JR. The Academy Award-nominated actor has been arrested for cocaine and heroin possession. His ads for Skechers shoes started running in magazines like Rolling Stone in April...
...probably one of the first people to be interested in it per se—not political figures and their sex lives but trying to write sketches about things that were going on,” says James M. W. Downey `74, one of Franken’s co-writers...
...Good Men follows the defense of Lance Cpl. Harold W. Dawson (Camilo E. Becdach ’05) and PFC Louden Downey (Zachary A. Corker ’04) by Lt. JG Daniel Kaffee (Eric M. Chesin ’02). The two are charged with the murder of a fellow marine, PFC William T. Santiago (Matthew A. Romero ’02) at the Naval Air Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Santiago’s death is ultimately revealed as part of a cover-up that leads to the heights of the chain of command and forces Kaffee...