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Maher, a stand-up comic and the son of an NBC news editor, conceived the show as a nightly dream salon in which discourse on the day's events boiled but never simmered. Critics of PI have lamented that the show, like Crossfire or The McLaughlin Group, too often turns into a forum of white noise where few substantive ideas are presented. This seems akin to disliking Jenny McCarthy because she doesn't do Strindberg. Half hours of current-affairs television--especially those that feature Meat Loaf as a recurring guest--are not meant to leave us feeling as though...
...some ways Baffert is a reward for horse-racing writers. They loved it when he told them the week before this year's Derby, "This time I brought a horse with a longer nose." They loved it when he filled out a questionnaire at a local hair salon and, under occupation, wrote down "porn star." They loved it when he helped Stevens up onto Silver Charm just before the Derby and told him, "May the horse be with you." Most of all, they loved it when his horse won a sensational stretch drive with favorite Captain Bodgit. In the winner...
...readers and in the ways that books get to consumers," says William Phillips, editor in chief of Little, Brown. One new way books are making their way into readers' hands is via the Internet. Amazon.com an online bookstore, is experiencing soaring volume, while electronic literary journals, such as Salon salon1999.com) are increasingly popular. Random House randomhouse.com) Time Warner Trade Publishing pathfinder.com/twep and Simon & Schuster simonsays.com are among the growing number of publishers with their own Websites. Far from killing off the book, computers seem to be reinforcing its dominance. The Internet is still overwhelmingly text-based, promoting literacy...
...tune of 20% last year) and even stores whose main business isn't bookselling are aping the superstores' bibliophilic ambiance. In Manhattan's landmark Scribner's bookstore, fabled haunt of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, a Benetton branch has set up shop and begun playing host to something called the Salon, a reading series featuring such swank young writers as Daphne Merkin, whose books will be on sale amid the turtlenecks...
Hoffmann's second failure at love is with the delicate, aria-singing, harpsichord-playing Antonia (Sarita Cannon), the damsel with a voice as clear and melodic as that of her dead mother, whose enormous portrait looms in the family's salon. The only problem is that Antonia's gift is killing her: if she continues to sing, the strain will destroy her. Benaim fills the role of the malevolent physician Dr. Miracle who also arranged the demise of Antonia's mother, urging the daughter to sing and sing until she is prostrate, dying on the davenport, still belting out Hoffmann...