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Today the Brothers cook for themselves--a chore to some, an art to others. Josh is the James Beard of the House. He even looks like him, only with hair. Josh knows he's good. He enters his spacious culinary atelier by 2 p.m. on the days he is creating, and he does not emerge with his weary assistants until well after his masterpieces have been consumed and eulogized. Maybe someday, Josh hopes, the Brothers will name a dish in his honor, as they do for all legendary House cooks...
...most difficult task advertisers now face is to second-guess the mood of U.S. consumers. According to experts. Americans are more pessimistic about the economic outlook than at any time since the bottom of the 1957 recession. Detroit Schoolteacher Josh Leopold and his wife Marilyn, a clerk in a department store, are typical. "We've had to cut back on entertainment," says Leopold. "We just don't go out to dinner or the movies as often as we did. We've also eliminated a book club and decided to just put off painting the inside...
That is precisely where Hollywood is now, according to Scenarist Josh Greenfeld (Harry and Tonto): "The studio chiefs' idea of an idea is not an idea. Besides, a book shouldn't be a step in the development of a movie. You may get a good feature out of the deal, but you'll never end up with a good book...
...with the TV show, most of the roles have been recast. Realizing that John Belushi's maniacal Bluto is irreplaceable, the series' creators have wisely retired him from action. In Delta House, Bluto has fled Faber forever, to be succeeded by a younger brother known as Blotto. Josh Mostel, who plays the sibling, shares Belushi's girth but is otherwise attempting to create an "animal" of a different stripe. Where Bluto guzzled beer, Blotto guzzles beer bottles...
...Yorker Justin Scott spent two years researching and writing The Ship-killer. It shows. His saga of the battered, unyielding Carolyn is as heady as Francis Chichester's narrative, with a draught of Melville and a slosh of Josh Slocum. His choice of villain is a shrewd one. Leviathan is even more dangerous and ungovernable than any vessel described in Noël Mostert's Supership. Scott, who has published five previous novels, limns his driven people as stylishly as his boats. As for Peter Hardin, he will surely name his next sloop Ajaratu...