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...slept during the morning hours of Jan. 1, 2000. There I was, with a clean slate for the next year, if not the next 100 or 1,000, and I had visions of finger plucking dancing in my head. If that's not a sign, well, hell, I don't know what...
...ironic; Garland never could get happy, despite her frantic efforts. Clarke's 10 years of research and 500 interviews blend into a smooth, tantalizing read. After learning more about Garland's tumultuous childhood (Dad repeatedly got into trouble for pursuing teenage boys; Mom was the stage mother from hell), readers will never question why Frances Ethel Gumm grew up to be the sad, pill-popping, suicidal adult that she was. Endless love affairs, abortions, crises, overdoses--it's all here. Oh, and some not-too-shabby singing and moviemaking...
...hell with fair...
...there has been no voluntary papal abdication since Celestine V in 1294. And while Celestine was later canonized, Dante placed him in the Inferno for il gran rifiuto (the great refusal), albeit only in the first circle of Hell: Limbo. Other pontiffs have been removed by murder, martyrdom, military intervention or rare coups by the College of Cardinals during pagan rule, the confusion of the Dark Ages, Byzantine meddling, populist revolutions or chronic political impotence. But what would happen if one of the most significant successors of St. Peter in the past 100 years were to give up his throne...
...Tony Soprano or Dawson Leery. Representativeness--one show expected to carry a whole race--is the curse of minority-cast series when so few are on TV. City's unusualness as a drama is a big publicity boon but also a burden. "Minorities in the business are rooting like hell for this show," says Charles Holland, a black writer. "The stakes are high...