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...Rising (SST Records) by Husker Du: Lead guitarist and singer Bob Mould may not have the talent of Thompson, but he uses his guts more than his fingertips anyway. Mould's guitar sounds like either a DC10 or Mount Vesuvius with heartburn, but he manages to sneak some very catchy melodies within the din. Despite the damage it does to your eardrums, "Celebrated Summer" is a wonderful pop song. These Minneapolis fat boys may share a lot in common with a rabid steamroller but there's something of Mary Tyler Moore there...
Writer Nora Ephron is two for eight on the big screen. The first success was Silkwood, which she co-wrote with Alice Arlen. Now a second Ephron script is being produced: Heartburn, based on her own best seller, which leaves her twelve movies behind her parents, Phoebe and Henry Ephron (Desk Set, Carousel). "For me to get 14 films made," says Ephron, "at my current rate of about one in four, I'd have to write 56 scripts and live to be 132. When they show the name of the studio at the beginning of a film, it should...
...Peter Jay, and his wife Margaret were the toast of the New York-Washington social circuit. Then came Mrs. Jay's more or less public affair with Watergate Heavyweight Carl Bernstein, subsequently chronicled with gusto by his former wife Nora Ephron, 42, in the bestselling Heartburn. Now it develops that while Ephron was turning to a novel to get satisfaction, Jay was turning elsewhere. Last week, Jane Tustian, 33, live-in nanny to the three Jay children for eleven years, publicly charged that Peter is the father of her son Nicholas, 3, and she is demanding child support...
...staff. But he writes with his usual quirky vigor and never loses sight of the quotidian world in which mystic chords get written: glossing one of his own scores, he recalls such details of its composition as "a particular face on television, a stab of heartburn, the cat licking my toes." Those who persist through the occasional thickets of crotchets and quavers will find in this little book the middle C of Anthony Burgess...
...Heartburn, Ephron...