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Death by Lesiure: A Cautionary Tale By Chris Ayres 300 pages; Grove Press...
...Rabbi Spider Man” and complete with the band’s rendition of “Hava Nagila.” “That was actually really touching,” Franco later said of his unexpected induction into manhood. At a press conference after the event, Franco said he plans to have another Bar Mitzvah when he gets a break from working toward an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia. Franco said he is now writing a novel and has a book of interrelated short stories that might be published soon. Twaalfhoven and Tria, whose roast...
Slurred speech. Long pauses. Answering questions that weren't directed to him and blurting out others. For days, Japan's Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa's appearance, during which he appears to be drunk, has been painfully public on the YouTube video of a G7 press conference in Rome last week. Today, it finally cost him his job. At a press conference in Tokyo, he resigned from his cabinet post, delivering yet another blow to the administration of Prime Minister Taro Aso as he struggles to keep control of his party and deal with the country's ever-worsening economic crisis...
...word - and video - of the embarrassing incident got out, Nakagawa also stole positive attention away from this week's historic visit from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Japan. Nakagawa's press conference Tuesday nearly coincided with the briefing that announced the invitation that Clinton extended to Aso to be the first foreign leader to visit the White House under President Barack Obama's administration. "The opposition party is looking to make an opportunity out of this big mistake," says Credit Suisse chief economist Hiromichi Shirakawa. Shirakawa says that if there were economic implications of Nakagawa's resignation, they...
...Nakagawa, for his part, has denied that he was drunk in the first place, saying that he was tired, under the influence of cold medicines, and had only "a sip" of wine during the lunch before the G7 press conference. The outraged public, for better or for worse, was not having it. "Japanese are often concerned about negative reactions by other countries," says Shirakawa. "It's a kind of shame." The fact that the press conference was broadcast globally didn't help. "It's not like some tourism minister at some conference in Bermuda getting smashed," says Dujarric. "The economy...