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Bill Wilson, a stockbroker and a drunk from Brooklyn, N.Y., thought he had found the secret of kicking the bottle. But on a business trip to Akron, Ohio, in May he found himself outside a bar, tempted and desperate. In the past, he had fought the urge by talking to other alcoholics, who truly understood his struggle. Through a church group, he found local surgeon Robert Holbrook Smith...
...RUMORS Hard-throwing, hard-drinking Yankees pitcher DAVID (BOOMER) WELLS is causing a ruckus with a tell-all memoir due out this week, Perfect I'm Not! In 1998 Wells threw a perfect game--hence the title--but in Perfect I'm Not! he says he did it "half drunk, with bloodshot eyes, monster breath and a raging, skull-rattling hangover" after a night spent partying with the cast of Saturday Night Live. He also claims that "between 25% and 40%" of Major League players use steroids. Wells, who says he may soften up some passages before the book hits...
Still, Herbert was better with ideas than with dialogue, and that trait carries over here in such lines as "Nothing in this universe is as great as my love for you." And while Sarandon's wicked witch is campy in a good way, Daniela Amavia, as Paul's power-drunk sister, lacks emotional range; whether in moral turmoil or rage, she looks as if she is ticked off that someone messed up her mochaccino order. The true stars are the sumptuous-for-TV special effects and the Matrix-esque combat scenes. It's hard to get too earnest about...
...death," writes Simpson, "it was the realization that he might ultimately lose his 20-year battle with Hollywood." Adams left behind an inventive body of fiction, including tall tales about his own life. Simpson corrects some of these myths - that he got the idea for Hitchhiker, for instance, lying drunk under the stars in Innsbrück while thumbing around Europe in 1971; it actually came during a 1973 trip to Greece. Who cares? Not his army of readers. To them, Douglas Adams is now free from the pressures of editors, agents and accountants (one of whom stole...
Fact: Cow-tipping? No. Getting drunk and a) playing softball, b) watching sports on TV or c) driving somewhere? Hell...