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...ugliest political brawl since the Jefferson-Adams presidential campaign--MELISSA GILBERT vs. VALERIE HARPER for the presidency of the Screen Actors Guild--is being contested owing to a ballot-instruction technicality. Gilbert's surprise victory culminates a campaign in which Harper, who ran on the Actors Moving Forward slate, refused to debate Gilbert, of the Restore Respect party. Harper sent out a mailing disclosing that Gilbert was a scab in a 1989 movie; Gilbert was forced to send out an e-mail explaining why she was too busy to appear at SAG strike events last year (birthday parties, dying...
...month of Sunday mornings, so it's not surprising that his debut album, Brushfire Fairytales, is doing a slow but steady sales burn in Southern California, Hawaii and other places where sand abounds. With a supersoft vocal style and influences ranging from Jimmy Buffett and Cat Stevens to Ben Harper and De La Soul, Johnson has perfected the admittedly picayune art of contemporary beach music. If the rest of the country hasn't yet heard of him, it is likely because he could barely muster the ambition to get a recording contract in the first place...
...surf shops and boutique record stores. The 50,000 albums sold on a production and promotion outlay equal to your average Iranian art film made for a tidy profit. Johnson has also managed to tear himself away from the beach long enough to do some sporadic touring with Ben Harper, though he hopes not to make a habit of it. Nor is he sure there will be another Jack Johnson record. "There's no ambitions musically. I like to just sort of let whatever happens naturally, go with it. So who knows...
Leave it to Oprah to start a revolutionary American trend: reading. Chicagoans are now reading en masse Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. And former librarian Laura Bush is using the clout of her new job to get a few notable authors to read out loud in Washington. As host of the first National Book Festival, this weekend, the First Lady will oversee an all-day affair on the Capitol lawn with readings, music, food and lessons on bookbinding. Whom has Bush picked as opening acts for this bookfest? John Adams biographer David McCullough, novelist Gail Godwin (Evensong), playwright...
...Oprah runs that town b) No other good choices for Harper Lee Day c) Boo Radley best substitute for Harry Caray d) City wants to increase literacy...