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What would you consider the most famous example in literature? Well, probably in both Ulysses and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Norman Mailer using fug in The Naked and the Dead, which gave rise to the famous anecdote that at a party, Tallulah Bankhead - or in some versions, Dorothy Parker - came up to him and said, "So you're the young man who can't spell...
...great identical-twin novelists (though I think John Barth has a twin sister), and I have never yet read a fictional account of twinness that I found convincing, with one exception: Darin Strauss's excellent Chang and Eng, about Barnum & Bailey's famous Siamese twins. As Elspeth tells her lover Robert shortly before she dies, "You haven't got a twin, so you can't know how it is." Too right...
During the case, jurors heard a simulated criminal trial in which they were asked to determine whether or not the deaths of a man and a woman were a double-suicide or double-homicide committed by a jilted lover. After an hour-long deliberation, jurors acquitted the defendant...
Read a two-minute bio of Stephanie Birkitt, David Letterman's alleged lover...
...Lion prize for director Shirin Neshat. Ksenia Rappoport took Best Actress as a Slovenian immigrant with a mysterious agenda in the Italian thriller The Double Hour. And Britain's Colin Firth was named Best Actor for his role as a gay professor in mourning over the death of his lover in A Single...