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...connection of "Scud" to popular culture, and to genre film culture in particular, is one Schrab plays up heavily. He suggests that "Scud" readers imagine that they're watching a movie, complete with music appropriate to each page or each scene. Each issue lists on the inside cover a "suggested soundtrack," drawn from rock, alternative music and film soundtracks. Schrab even provides suggested "voice talent," so you know just what those voices in your head ought to sound like (Scud is supposed to be voiced by John Malkovich...
Keillor's charmingly lucid writing, however, cannot hide the gaping flaws of the plot and main characters in Wobegon Boy. Almost halfway through the novel, a magazine with a front-page picture and article appears one day, depicting John as a "portly Lutheran Lothario" who "tried to 'psychologically seduce'" women at the public radio station where he works. However, up to that point in the book, readers are lead to believe that John is kind, quiet, in love with his girlfriend Alida, and not coming close to stepping on anyone's toes along the way. This sudden, almost violent disclosure...
...days check out my homepage for links to the sites I've suggested and many more. My page is at http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~thurston....
...management, or government, openly recognize problems. That's the vital first step toward fixing them. In Japan, last week's bank failure was the catharsis that investors wanted, and the market's swift approval is certain to encourage more bold acts. Indeed, the ink hadn't dried on this page when giant Yamaichi Securities said it too would liquidate--and regulators pledged cash to protect the firm's clients. Japan's financial system has some $500 billion of uncollectible debt--reminiscent of the savings-and-loan mess in the U.S. a decade ago. America's taxpayer-financed bailout was painful...
...culture's most powerful critic was taking his shot. On the Oct. 19 episode of The Simpsons, Bart walked up to the blackboard and, in his signature scrawl, covered it with the phrase, "I no longer want my MTV." Meanwhile, the MTV-Hater's Page Website offered a chat for "all those who are sick of MTV's mass of nonmusic-related programming." Even the demographically challenged Howard Stern, whose own audience is more Pat Benatar than Puff Daddy, realized he could score easy points by harping on the service's lack of videos. Yet despite the welling demand...