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...Alex Robinson's "Box Office Poison," (Top Shelf Productions; 602 pg.; $29.95), has nothing to do with Hollywood, but is instead a phone-book-sized story of friends and lovers in their twenties living and working in New York City. The central character, Sherman, slaves away at a Manhattan bookstore while struggling with aspirations of being a writer and coping with his self-destructive girlfriend. Meanwhile his best-friend, Ed, employed as the assistant to an old-time comicbook "legend," begins a crusade to earn his craggy boss compensation for the lucrative characters he signed away fifty years...
...often unbelievable storylines that never coalesce into a thematic, artistic goal. The book works much better as a smartly depicted character study of the post-graduate, middle-class, suburban types that spend several years in the city before getting married and moving out. The six hundred pages give Robinson room to flash back on important events like Sherman's struggle with his mom's cancer and Ed's tale of retribution against an abusive uncle. Every fifty pages or so he makes the characters answer a get-to-know-you question like, "What is your secret talent...
...Robinson's black and white drawings have a realistic, if fairly undistinguished style that reads easily, but is not boring. He keeps the layouts changing and occasionally gets modestly ambitious, as when Sherman's shocked reaction to a girlfriend's "move in together" proposal appears in the top and bottom of a giant exclamation point. In both the writing and drawing Robinson does a nice job of portraying the character's lives with the verisimilitude of being a New Yorker himself. Crazy, immigrant landladies, intimate encounters on rooftops, and subway fantasies are things that any New Yorker can tell...
...Jennifer Thomas was trying to fend off the media glare, flight attendant Anne Marie Smith was getting maximum exposure. She made the cable-network rounds and spent two days at FBI headquarters in Washington. Smith's story has grown increasingly sinister. Her lawyer, Jim Robinson, told Fox News that Smith had found "neckties tied together underneath [Condit's] bed, as if someone had been tied up," and that Smith had grown disturbed near the end of their relationship at some of Condit's "peculiar sexual fantasies." The lawyer didn't elaborate. On Friday night, on Larry King Live, Smith declared...
Ebbets Field was introduced to the bulldozers shortly after the Brooklyn Dodgers bolted for Los Angeles in 1957, leaving behind a less-than-spectacular apartment building and a million broken hearts. Brooklyn had loved its baseball team’s players, certainly—champions like Jackie Robinson, Pee-Wee Reese and Duke Snider as well as the more comical figures of earlier, more futile years...