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...artist J. Backderf, who signs his work "Derf," has released two outstanding examples of the latter. "Trashed" (Slave Labor Graphics; 48pp.; $6.95) recounts his days as a college-drop-out garbage man. "My Friend Dahmer" (Derfcity Comics; 24pp.; $2.95) tells of Backderf's remarkable high-school relationship with notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. The funniest book of the year so far, followed by the creepiest, and it's all true...
...Life in Advertising" (Knopf; May 12): "A beguiling look inside 30 years of the zippy, fast-moving culture, done with the kind of witty, charming self-deprecation often seen in the ads she created. FORECAST: Knopf's banking on this one with a 50,000 first printing and first serial to Vanity Fair and Advertising Age. It should be a strong seller, transcending the memoir category into women's studies, advertising, management and cultural criticism...
...there more to it? An Oprah producer recently admitted that the book-club shows garner lower ratings than regular shows. A former Oprah associate says Oprah is a serial sharer. Having shared her emotional life, her diet and her reading list, she is done with the book thing. "I think she just got bored," says an insider. "Tired of the cycle." Some think her feelings were genuinely injured when Jonathan Franzen, the best-selling author of The Corrections, put his hands in his pockets and shifted around in his loafers after being chosen as an Oprah author. Franzen wondered...
...reductionist, Frailty is a horror flick of the Stephen King pulp fiction ilk. A man claiming to be Fenton Meiks (Matthew McConaughey) emerges at a Texas FBI bureau from out of nowhere claiming that he knows the identity of the God’s Hand murderer, a serial killer who has slain a slew of victims all over Texas. The improbable reason? The killer is his younger brother, and to prove it, he is going to explain how the current situation came about. So, we flash back to 1979, back to Fenton’s childhood where we see that...
...parish. Treat the priest with confession, time out at a discreet rehab center and Christian forgiveness; then let him resume duties at a new parish, the same way they dealt with whisky priests' alcoholism. For years the bishops believed, or made themselves believe, pedophilia could be "cured," until the serial molestations and multiple victims and repeat offenders proved it wasn't so. Only the most recalcitrant recidivists were eventually "laicized"--forced to give up their priestly vocation--long after they had done their worst. And if a victim finally sued, the strategy was to admit nothing, buy silence, settle...