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That brutal finale made Salinger a sensation in literary circles. By that time Salinger, too, was becoming a man who could not abide the world. The producer Darryl Zanuck bought the screen rights to another of Salinger's New Yorker stories, "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut," about a suburban housewife who dissolves into self-pity during an afternoon of drinking with an old school chum. Zanuck had it rewritten as a throbbing melodrama with Susan Hayward that was released under the title My Foolish Heart. The whole thing made Salinger cringe...
...picture of Salinger that Maynard draws for us is of a man preoccupied by homeopathic medicine who had a diet regimen built around vegetables and ground lamb cooked at very low temperatures. He loved certain TV programs - The Andy Griffith Show, The Lawrence Welk Show - and had reels of old Hollywood movies that he projected at home. He wrote every day, but the unpublished work was stored away in a large safe that occupied a good part of one bedroom. She tells us that because she found sexual intercourse with Salinger too painful and frightening to complete, she remained...
...Then, a man dressed as Puff the Magic Dragon took the stage to accost Hathaway, who was instructed to slay the creature by a man playing Meryl Streep’s character in “The Devil Wears Prada...
Justin R. Timberlake, who has been named the Man of the Year, will be honored in a separate ceremony on Feb. 5. While the Grammy Award-winning singer will not be treated to a parade, the Pudding will hold a roast in his honor...
Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' point man on the issue, told TIME that "the difference between man and woman allows them to make the fundamentally unique commitment of marriage, ordered to love and the creation and nurturing of new life. Because of the unique nature and responsibilities of this relationship, it deserves the protection and promotion of the state...