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...only thing missing from Get Happy is a serious discussion of Garland's musicianship. "I never heard anybody sing...just the way you do," an amazed James Mason tells her in A Star Is Born. Truer words were never scripted. Dumpy and unglamorous, she acted the way Frank Sinatra did, as an intuitive extension of the complex persona she had first painstakingly built up with her voice alone. When Hollywood finally slammed its doors in her drug-raddled face, she moved into concert halls and sang her way back to superstardom. An ideal biography would have had something memorable...
...Wolfe, in addition to a fascination with hooking-up, where hunters mascarade in Brooks Brothers, he is also drawn to the cultural phenomenon of "dissing." Dissing can take on a particularly male flavor, as in the story of Howard "Pappy" Mason, a small-time New York criminal who ordered the assassination of a random NYPD officer after being "disrespected" by another member of the blue. Mason had been strolling with his amigos, flashing an open bottle of liquor. An officer approached and told him to put away his liquor or come downtown. The officer faced Pappy down, giving...
...decades, and while he still uses his drawl for dramatic effect, it usually lies dormant. On the one hand, Wolfe casts an ironic eye on modern culture and preaches a return to more brutal instincts. On the other, he lives the life of a foppish Manhattan novelist. Like Pappy Mason, Wolfe says his soul has been wrankled by challenges to his manliness. Wolfe's example: once in New York, during a snowstorm, another man took a cab from him and he had to wait a long time for another. Poor thing...
...Wolfe's philosophy overextends to make it rather ridiculous--Howard "Pappy" Mason should be a hero to no one--but Wolfe's own style points to the possibility of a more subtle rendering of the American male. Perhaps it is one that could even exist at Harvard. With a little bit of 94.5, a smattering of sex and some chewing tobacco, maybe we can convince Wolfe to spend some time...
Fortunately for the Harvard softball team, the remainder of its regular season schedule features no more games south of the Mason-Dixon Line...