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...comfort. If I give you a number, you're going to take more risk. Regardless of the confidence you have in the number. It's psychological. If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident. It's kind of like a seatbelt on a plane. It doesn't do anything...
...Even after word of his talent began to spread, his road to success was plagued with potholes. He split with one manager over a Burger King Whopper - Eminem couldn't afford one and figured any manager unwilling to shell out for a client's lunch wasn't serious about the rapper's prospects. And while the opening scene in 8 Mile - in which his character suffers stage fright during a rap battle - may have been cinematically embellished, he "choked" in the finals of a 1997 battle in Ohio, returning to Detroit "depressed and totally broke...
...booze and the Lucky Strikes, lost his virginity to a bonobo (a cruel joke played by Charlie Chaplin) and snorted "star-powder" (a homeopathic remedy, they told him). And despite his star billing, Cheeta had to put up with some pretty cutting social prejudice. At one typically drunken lunch party, Cheeta recalls, "Sylvia [Fairbanks] had pressed some bananas on me, and made a rather snippy observation when I declined and opted for the steak tartare and a cigarette...
...researching his first Dr. Siri mystery, 2004's The Coroner's Lunch, Cotterill had little to go on. Historical accounts from the mid-1970s proved sketchy at best (and, as it happened, Laos had no actual chief coroner to consult). In writing about Laos' most politically tumultuous decade, Cotterill was thus left to fill in the blanks for himself. The latest Dr. Siri mystery, in particular, delves into the tragic history of the Hmong, an ethnic minority buffeted by the Vietnam War and later brutally oppressed in both Vietnam and Laos. "The problem with writing about Laos is information stops...
...understand the appeal the former Prentiss County chancery clerk has in deep red northern Mississippi, it's less helpful to know his party affiliation than to watch him deliver a 15-minute soliloquy on the glories of fried green tomatoes over lunch in Columbus or work the crowd at the annual Good Ole Boys and Gals political barbecue in Oxford or react to the news that squirrel dumplings would be served at a cookout in Yalobusha County. "Honey child!" Childers shouted with glee. "I think it's fair to say," he told me later, "that I'm a squirrel-dumpling...