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...Scott Fitzgerald put Minnesota on the literary map. Bob Dylan put it on the musical map, then redrew the boundaries. But Prince, born and bred in Minneapolis, brought the music back to town, inspired what is now a $650 million local business, and kicked back to watch the revolution -- and play with the Revolution, which, as all Prince fans know, was the name of his touring band...
Gately Shelter, Fitzgerald St. Playground entrance...
Gately Shelter, Fitzgerald St. Playground entrance...
...rich "are different from you and me," wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. "Yes," Ernest Hemingway appended, "they have more money." But Claus and Sunny von Bulow, at least as represented in this marvelously sad and funny docucomedy, really were different. She, the depressive Newport heiress, with a frail hauteur in her demeanor and a well-stocked pharmacy in her purse. He, Danish-born and smartly foppish, living off her wealth and at her whim. Not Eurotrash exactly -- aristotrash. When in 1981 Claus was accused of attempting to murder Sunny with insulin injections, leaving her in a coma from which...
Wolff's novel does a superb job of illustrating the impossibilities of relying on dreams. Just when we think we have captured them, they slip through our grasp and leave us to beat on, boats against the current. Wolff reminds us of Fitzgerald's warning that we cannot resist being borne back ceaselessly into the past...