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...used this program," says Margaret Mehring, who recently retired as head of the writing program. "He was driven to communicate certain ideas, and he was not about to take no for an answer." By the time he graduated in 1990, Singleton had twice won the school's prestigious Jack Nicholson award for best feature-length screenplay and had been signed up by the powerful Creative Arts Agency...
...nights a year on the road, and yet demurs at ordering room service. He jokes that he's not comfortable eating something that doesn't come wrapped in plastic foam. In Las Vegas, at Caesars Palace, where he regularly performs, he and his wife of 11 years, Mavis Nicholson, disagree about whether they are staying in the same room as last time. "Honey, I know it's the same room," he says with a slight whine. "I fixed the toilet last time, and I had to fix it again last night...
...Nicholson Baker (Random House; $15). This novel masquerades as the transcript of a phone conversation between a man and a woman who have connected over an adult party line; beneath the talk runs a funny and sometimes chilling parable about relationships in the age of safe...
...Nicholson Baker is a subatomic physicist of fiction, a quantum suburban Proust. He is a wizard at anatomizing the micromechanics of mental life, at charting the quicksilver zigzags of decision and indecision, a writer who can spin out a mock epic from a pair of broken shoelaces...
...quietly in Beatty's 37-acre aerie at the very tip-top of Mulholland Drive. Santo Pietro's is a half mile away, and it is no routine Italian joint. The Beverly Glen Centre has perhaps the greatest celebrity concentration in town. Beatty is a regular, as is Jack Nicholson, who lives across the road from him. Marlon Brando lives nearby too, but he does not cruise malls...