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You’ve probably heard by now of John Mayer and Jack Johnson, the acoustic balladeers whose quiet, melancholy songs have taken off in the past year. They’re represented by lesser-known but still enchanting songs. But the highlight of the album is the crooner Norah Jones, with ‘Don’t Know Why’. It’s one of those perfect pop songs—catchy yet with a distinct character of relaxed jazz and perfectly composed...
Take, for example, the report out of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control last week that at least a dozen people in the Northeast died this summer--and dozens more got sick--after becoming infected with listeria, one of the lesser-known bacterial causes of food poisoning...
MOONLIGHT MILE. Slow, actor-driven pieces about bereavement may be acclaimed out of mere guilt—who has it in them to pan a sensitive, non-maudlin treatment of the aftermath of death? Like In the Bedroom and the lesser-known The Son’s Room, both of which dealt with families trying to live with the death of their child, this film has been lauded on the film-festival circuit. It-boy and Columbia dropout Jake Gyllenhaal (The Good Girl, Lovely and Amazing) is Joe, a faithful surrogate son to his dead fiancee’s parents...
Tabloid reporters also being a skeptical breed, the overwhelming reaction to the marriage seemed to be speculation over how long it would last. After all, her previous marriage to singer Lyle Lovett, also planned in haste and secrecy, survived just 21 months. And marriages between wildly famous actresses and lesser-known men they meet at work rarely reach the second anniversary (see Jennifer Lopez and Cris Judd, et al.). Then there's the fact that Moder was a married man, never a promising sign, when Roberts and he met on the set of The Mexican. But, hey, we wish them...
...works: With a "wide range" of fiction and nonfiction, Today's "twist," says a spokesperson, is to have a best-selling author choose a book from a lesser-known writer each month. The show announces its first selection this week...