Word: forrester
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...sheer reclusiveness, Hughes (Howard, not Brian G.) had a worthy rival in candymaker Forrest Mars Sr. Virtually every detail of Mars' life--including his birthday--is kept a closely guarded corporate secret within Mars Inc., a secretive company. He has reportedly given but one interview in his entire career and that to a candy-industry trade paper in 1966. Yet even Mars' and Hughes' penchant for anonymity pales before that of Basil Zaharoff (1849-1936), a munitions king aptly called the "Mystery Man of Europe." Zaharoff systematically stole or destroyed all records of his youth and early manhood, making snooping...
...forty-year-old women, generally scholars; one's an SAT consultant, another a professor, another a librarian and the rest teachers. The exceptions include a middle-aged, forgotten actress and a disillusioned, lovelorn man. The stories are sprinkled with pop culture references to the early nineties: several references to Forrest Gump ("`Such a career-ender for Tom Hanks,'" one character remarks), mention of the Gulf War, of O.J. Simpson--even William Kennedy Smith makes it in (remember him?). But these are all part of Moore's sharp adherence to a realistic world within the novel; it is in the characters...
...trouble for the world outside the football field. In one of the funniest scenes, Bobby, now in college on scholarship, tackles his professor, a hilarious academic look-alike of Colonel Sanders of "Kentucky Fried Chicken" fame, for insulting his mother. At times,The Waterboy seems to be a vicious Forrest Gump antithesis, quoting directly the famous prefatory phrase "My momma always say...," clinched with bayou-stupidity rather than innocent, simple wisdom...
...Seeing as how Tuesday's AFI Top 100 film-a-ganza, while largely well-stocked, had some glaring omissions and did contain one or two too many Forrest Gumps, if you know what I mean...
Lamb's new book is also a departure from She's Come Undone, an offbeat story of an overweight girl named Dolores. Ambitious and sprawling, I Know This Much Is True is a monster of a tale about twin brothers, one schizophrenic and one healthy, that covers a Forrest Gump-like time span and touches on issues ranging from Native American rights to child pornography. Lamb's ending is a triumph of simple beauty; unfortunately, many readers simply will not get that...