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...Dionne Warwick. The current renaissance--Bacharach's last big hit was 1985's That's What Friends Are For--began a few years ago, with the explosion of interest in so-called lounge music, especially in Britain, where a two-disc set of Bacharach tunes became a surprise best seller. The U.S. will soon get its own three-disc retrospective, as well as a new Broadway musical in early 1998, tentatively named Anyone Who Had a Heart, with a trunkful of old Bacharach-David tunes; a Los Angeles revival of the team's one previous stage musical, Promises, Promises...
Roar's creator, '70s teen idol turned television auteur Shaun Cassidy, admits that he let his "imagination soar" with the series. What inspired him to set an epic in this period was his reading of Thomas Cahill's 1996 best seller, How the Irish Saved Civilization, a book about Celtic monks who transcribed important Latin texts for posterity. (However, in the first few episodes, at least, no scholar-monks appear...
DIED. JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU, 87, prophet of the depths; in Paris. Cousteau co-invented the Aqua-Lung, the first scuba-diving device, in 1943. Weightless and wide-eyed, he recorded the watery wilderness he encountered in The Silent World, a 1953 best seller and Oscar-winning documentary. He aspired higher than the earthly titles he collected over the years (author, filmmaker, environmentalist), writing "Under water, man becomes an archangel." (See Eulogy below...
...panel recommended approval of a drug called orlistat that works on the gut instead of the brain--reducing caloric intake by blocking the body's ability to absorb fat. Orlistat has its problems--its side effects include intestinal leakage. That doesn't mean orlistat will not be a big seller, at least at first. But if folks buy it expecting weight-loss miracles, they are bound to be as disappointed next year as Redux users are today...
...deliriously entertaining rants assembled here trace the renegade's progress from editing the sports pages of his Air Force-base magazine, through a stint as a TIME copy boy, to his first best seller, Hell's Angels, in 1967. There are absurdly elaborate screeds to collection agencies and complaints to banks about the color of his checks. The proud highwayman wrote to William Faulkner, suggesting that the Nobel laureate send him money; to President Johnson, nominating himself for the governorship of American Samoa; to the Postmaster General, protesting the introduction of Zip Codes...