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...start feeling a bit haunted by the Hatfields and the McCoys. For one thing, if you go to lunch with a bunch of Boone County lawyers at Freda's, their favorite hangout, you may find yourself sitting next to Burr Hatfield. For another, the folks down here routinely make jokey references to the infamous dispute as if it had happened yesterday. But all family violence is not alike. And what most infuriates Marcella Kay Weekley's advocates--the band of lawyers, friends and relatives battling to get her out of jail--is when people describe what happened between Jackie...
...their range of concerns; but in addition to sharing a publisher, their poems share a conversational tone that at times makes them sound like a monologue or a stand-up routine. The poems in both of their new books are largely free-form, unmetered, anecdotal and sometimes jokey; in other words, perfect for reading aloud to an audience, especially an audience that hasn't read them before...
...baaaack. After three jokey films (Last Action Hero, Junior, True Lies) that defiled the great stone totem that is Schwarzenegger, Eraser is a return to basics. The film, which had a troubled history and a humongous reported price tag of $120 million, could have been a fiasco; instead, it smartly remythologizes this indispensable Hollywood icon...
...galleon of loot for the company during a year in which he has pulled off an unheard-of triple play. Home Improvement, his ABC sitcom now in its fourth season, is TV's No. 1-rated show, earning Disney $400 million thus far in the sale of reruns. His jokey autobiographical book, Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man, reached No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list in October and is still riding high in second place (trailing only the Pope); it is the most successful book yet published by Disney's 3 1/2-year-old book...
...thing about these books -- they're not really books. They're comedy routines on paper. For people with attention spans geared to television. Short chapters. Short paragraphs. Short sentences. They have the rhythms of stand-up monologues. Lots of conversational asides, jokey hyperbole and the sort of slangy sentence structure you don't usually see in print. So what did you think, you were getting Middlemarch...