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Sideways sends Miles, a schoolteacher and the anguished author of a 759-page unpublished novel, and Jack, who used to be a TV sort-of star and now does voice-overs for commercials, up the California coast on a vacation of wine, women and golf the week before Jack's wedding. Sounds like your ordinary buddy road movie, with self- discovery lurking like a state trooper around every bend. It has two chase scenes and a car crash. But the film, scripted by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor and directed by Payne, is in no way ordinary. Since Miles...
...read Pamela Andersen’s Star: A Novel, now read her ex-hubby’s authorial debut. Tommy Lee, former drummer of Motley Crue and current ambiguous VH1 persona, will be signing his Tommyland at a B&N in Boston. Meet Dr. Feelgood in person. Free. Barnes & Noble, 660 Beacon St., Boston...
...National Book Award winner will be reading from War Trash, his new novel. It is a powerful, unflinching story that opens a window on an unknown aspect of a little-known war—the experiences of Chinese POWs held by Americans during the Korean conflict—and paints an intimate portrait of conformity and dissent against a sweeping canvas of confrontation. 6:30 p.m. Harvard Bookstore, 1256 Mass...
...redemption of a long-estranged parent is hardly a novel plot in contemporary cinema; it has congealed to the point where every hug, tear and clumsy montage seem carefully choreographed. Refreshingly, Around the Bend reveals an organic push and pull that approaches the mostly shapeless narrative of real relationships that is only reinforced by the subtle performances of popular screen legends Christopher Walken and Sir Michael Caine...
Stephen Elliott, author of Happy Baby, a novel the New York Times called “the most beautiful book ever written about sadomasochism,” says that clubs like Mark’s are absolutely necessary as a matter of health and safety...