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EMINEM, a.k.a. Marshall Mathers, 27, filed for divorce from his wife KIM MATHERS last week, after 14 months of F. Scott- and Zelda Fitzgerald-style marital stability. The couple separated in June after he was charged with assault for allegedly hitting a man he found kissing his wife at a nightclub. That was not the first sign of trouble. Mathers has recorded songs about berating and murdering the missus, and beat an effigy of her to wild applause during his recent tour. He also sports a KIM--ROT IN PIECES tattoo on his torso. In July, Kim attempted suicide...
When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "There are no second acts in American lives," he was ruefully noting the early rise and fall of celebrated people. In this young country, success was a young man's game, and so was failure. But today's Americans might take Fitzgerald's jeremiad as a compliment: there are no second acts because we prolong the first act forever; we work and play hard to extend adolescence for another 40, 50 years. It's hard work, consuming all that wheat germ and Viagra, but it's worth it to stay tan, teen and terrific. Besides...
...have been rereading Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night," an awful book in many ways, but with an interesting haunted quality: Nicole Diver's insanity darkens the pages like a cloud passing overhead, or like the rumor of a shark in summer waters...
...book makes me think offhandedly about the bright, mysterious word "fun." Fitzgerald modeled Dick and Nicole Diver upon Gerald and Sarah Murphy, a wealthy and charming American couple who like the fictional Divers kept a villa on the Riviera in the 1920s and, in Fitzgerald's myth-making, had an exquisite genius...
...Poor Fitzgerald was not much fun. He got drunk at the Murphys' villa and made scenes and smashed their expensive crystal wine glasses. He repaid their hospitality by writing a novel that made out his hostess, Sarah Murphy, to be a mental case who had been incestuously abused by her own father. Some bread-and-butter note...