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...turn. Willis is now suing Bruce DiMattia for more than $1 million, claiming his ex-archivist threatened to sell Willis' personal effects and write a tell-all book containing "highly personal, private and confidential information" unless Willis paid him $100,000 and bought him a car. That's rude. And silly. Now the guy will never get promoted to keg tapper...
...tended by a team of sweet old uncles. They all come over, one by one, to ask how I am and how my father is. This is how I know that they are both conservative and sweet: they have met my mother, but do not want to suggest anything rude by asking about...
...tempting to think of clones as perfect carbon copies of the original--down to every hair and quirk of temperament. It turns out, though, that there are various degrees of genetic replication. That may come as a rude shock to people who have paid thousands of dollars to clone a pet cat only to discover that their new kitten looks and behaves nothing like their beloved pet--with a different-color coat of fur, perhaps, or a completely different attitude toward its human hosts...
...point that out not to be rude--although I admit it is kind of rude--but because those are the writers that people--people who think about such things, anyway--think of as the young American novelists. And even by the notoriously elastic standards of the literary world--the only place on earth where you can still be a wunderkind at the age of 30--42 is not especially youthful. Wallace, Franzen, Lethem and Chabon may be great writers, but one thing they are not is young writers...
...ships' ropes to come ashore. Now we get the sound of bombs and artillery fire, before a Winston Churchill figure (irreverently dubbed Mr. Piggy) announces that the war is over. The girl who would become Queen Elizabeth II struts about in a cameo frame, a living portrait. (And a rude one: Her Majesty is played by a man, as we discover when she removes the frame, her wig and most of her clothes...