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...face of it, My Last Movie Star (Random House; 349 pages) is a simple tale. Clementine James, a seasoned profile writer for Flame magazine, is asked to write a 5,000-word story on Allegra Coleman, but as the two begin drifting through the cool, dry spaces of California together, Allegra abruptly totals the 1956 Porsche they are in and disappears. Clementine, taken to the hospital, finds herself the celebrity now, as the last person to have seen the missing star alive. As she slips into a life where privacy is obsolete, she starts to be visited by actresses from...
...look at things differently. We have a detective assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and anything that's remotely suspicious, we send them the report." Two days earlier, a Fairfax County policeman's car, containing his badge and jacket, had been stolen in Prince William County. Were these random events - or part of a sinister pattern? Within hours, the task force was circulating an account of the thefts to every police and fire department in the Washington area...
Women themselves—not their doctors—must make the call to join the registry, he said. In addition, the registry does not admit women who have already had prenatal screenings for birth defects—which, he said, assures that the registry gets a random sample of women...
...fading. Andrea gives him the double-guns and yells, “College!” This is funny, because one of Ben’s favorite pastimes is to point at random people with both hands and yell things...
Being at a new college is like Freshmen Week all over again. I get my food and then walk around with my tray, nervously scoping the dining hall to see if there’s anyone I know. There never is, so I go up to a random group of British students and awkwardly sit down next to them. They always have plenty of questions for me—but as opposed to the usual, “Where are you from, what are you studying, what dorm are you in?” they...