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...opportunism, her greed. She is big game for a biographer. But Hellman kept her friends--including lovers whom she treated capriciously--over decades, and almost anyone who comments on her speaks of her vitality and her energy. So Mellen's repeated harping on minor points gives her book a rancid quality. Hellman's ugliness, sexual vamping and minor instances of social cowardice are all pounced on and recounted. In her introduction Mellen says that at times, when confronted with a problem, she would ask herself, "What would Lily do?" One thing is certain: she would burn this book...
...despite--or because of--this stellar performance, Washington suspects that something must be rancid at Frito-Lay. In a move that caught even antitrust experts by surprise, the Justice Department confirmed last week that it has begun a probe of the salty-snacks industry; insiders say it is focusing on Frito-Lay. The action was all the more unexpected because other companies have amassed even larger shares of their respective markets without government eyebrows being raised (see chart). But Justice is said to be looking hard at Frito-Lay's use of shelf allowances, a common retailing practice in which...
...will release Insomniac, a short, sharp album of pop punk songs about turning tricks, picking scabs and hating one's parents, which is expected to be one of the biggest-selling CDs of the year. Two other new punk albums,...And Out Come the Wolves by the Berkeley band Rancid, and Paranoid & Sunburnt, from the British group Skunk Anansie, are already in stores. The Seattle punk band Hole--whose leader, Courtney Love, is one of the best lyricists in rock (and the widow of Kurt Cobain of Nirvana)--has just come out with a CD titled Ask for It, featuring...
...Recall), for making this movie--though we're surprised he can bear to watch it. The real culprit is Eszterhas, swami of the High Concept. He found Nazis in The Music Box and white supremacists in Betrayed, but cogent drama in neither. His favorite plot hook, sexual mutilation, bore rancid fruit in Jagged Edge, Basic Instinct and Sliver. At least those three had some sick kick to them. But if his women characters aren't psychos or sex-crime victims, the scripts get shrill and turgid. After an hour of naughty chat in Showgirls, you'll start hoping for somebody...
There are rumbles too from the author's former Shangri-La. A rancid attack by Atlanta-based free-lancer Ed Hinton in January's GQ charged that Grisham is sullying the sacred ground where Faulkner once trod: "In a long line of Mississippi writers, Grisham is a singular aberration and paradox, the worst and the richest, the least distinguished and the most popular." The article outraged most locals, who point out that Grisham helped pay to repair the Faulkner estate and rescued a new literary periodical, the Oxford American. Says novelist Barry Hannah, who has a formidable reputation...