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...last week, Redford canceled the show, saying he couldn't make the September 20 date he had originally suggested. Like the groom at the conclusion of the 1967 film "The Graduate," Harvard officials--who had scrambled to reschedule a host of activities to accommodate Redford and his film about the '50s TV game show scandals--were left standing at the altar...
...male that is as well defined as a Fitzgerald beau or a Cheever suburbanite. They are the young, Reagan-bred Republicans who astounded their parents by turning out exactly like them, but with a coating of Lettermanesque irony. They see The Graduate from the viewpoint of the spurned, stuffy groom. They believe that being a salesman is "not just a job but a culture." They read the Bible while dancing alone to Glenn Miller's PEnnsylvania 6-5000. And when they encounter sensuous senoritas who declare, "I don't go to bed with just anyone anymore -- I have...
Tyke, a 21-year-old female African elephant, trampled her trainer to death and stomped her groom at a circus in Honolulu. She then barreled down a city street before police shot her repeatedly and a zoo worker administered a lethal injection. Circus officials had promised to retire Tyke after she went berserk at a Pennsylvania circus last year, according to the Humane Society...
Authors who read their own work are generally less polished but often more effective than actors. Winston Groom reads his novel Forrest Gump in a husky Alabama drawl, delivering a lot more salt and a lot less sappiness than there is in the current hit movie. Hearing Stephen King read the beautifully modulated opening chapter of Needful Things is almost enough to convince you to stick around for the rest of the 24-hour tape. Almost but not quite: one odd aspect of the audio-book market is that King, perhaps the contemporary author who could most benefit from trimming...
...also a sleek Hollywoodizing, a ruthlessly canny face-lift of Groom's novel. In the book, Forrest was just as naive but not quite so innocent or lucky: he had some sex, did some drugs and missed out on the nuclear family that in the movie Forrest finally gets to tend. In pumping up Jenny's role, screenwriter Eric Roth transferred all of Forrest's flaws -- and most of the excesses Americans committed in the '60s and '70s to her. Wright's Jenny is a frail soul in tailspin, a battered child in a beautiful woman's body. And Forrest...