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Reclusive lovers of talented youngsters, beware: one day they may get a publishing deal. JOYCE MAYNARD, who lived with J.D. SALINGER for nine months when she was 18 and he 53, has written about it. Surprise, surprise--it turns out that the J.D. she knew back in 1974 was odd and not very congenial. In excerpts from At Home in the World in September's Vanity Fair, we learn that Salinger was a picky eater who didn't like his food cooked at more than 150[degrees]F, who made himself throw up after he ate junk food and encouraged...
Hurling, flatulence, jiggling breasts, the odd vibrator joke--all the elegant elements we've come to cherish in what is now, let's face it, the mainstream of American movie comedy--are present in BASEketball. So, of course, are the young TV masters of gross-out, South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, being mentored through their major--all right, maybe we're stretching a point here--motion-picture debut by one of the genre's old masters, David Zucker, auteur of Airplane! and the Naked Gun epics...
...comforting to know that American sports stars aren't the only ones who go wiggy with fame. Russians PASHA GRISHUK and EVGENY PLATOV, right, the only ice dancers ever to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals, have always been as odd a match off the ice as they were perfect on it. Pasha is, well, flamboyant. She models herself after Marilyn Monroe, went through the torturous process of changing her name from Oksana to Pasha--Russian for passion--and has made no secret of her Hollywood dreams. Now, apparently, Evgeny has decided her virtuosity...
Album titles that sound like Zen koans are almost always a sign of musical vapidity (New Age alert!). But not here. On his seventh disc as a leader, this adventurous 27-year-old jazz pianist justifies the title's paradox with playing that is full of odd stops and starts and tonal shifts, all of which he negotiates with delicacy rather than flash. This is music that manages to be both prickly and soothing--like anxious lullabies (to suggest another unappetizing title). Though Keezer gives himself three solo numbers--a highlight being his gentle deconstruction of Lush Life--the heart...
...Chicago wasn't ready to party. Ralph Kiner flattened balls, but did so in Pittsburgh, which is the Big City only if you're in Cincinnati...where Frank Robinson was huge, before he went to (equally frowzy) Baltimore. You get the idea: it's an uncommon man at an odd moment who can play in the league we're speaking...