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...call. Tokyo has another alarm clock in store for Bob. He needs the jolt of friendship, and he finds it in Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a young wife who is as restless as Bob is. When she asks how long he's staying in Tokyo, he replies like a lounge singer at the end of his act, "I'll be in the bar for the rest of the week...
...when his parents move to a hard-luck black and Puerto Rican neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mom is a hippie, his dad a painter who spends his days on an incomprehensible, unfinishable masterpiece. Soon Mingus Rude moves in down the block. His father Barrett is a once famous soul singer--he fronted the fictional Subtle Distinctions--now in drastic, drug-addicted decline (Barrett owes more than a little to Marvin Gaye). The boys become friends--Mingus the leader, Dylan the follower--and Lethem spends much of the novel carefully mapping out the social dynamics of their microcosmic Brooklyn block...
DIED. GISELE MACKENZIE, 76, Canadian-born singer and 1950s TV star; of colon cancer; in Burbank, Calif. The daughter of a Winnipeg doctor, she was a regular on Your Hit Parade, where she and such co-stars as Snooky Lanson and Dorothy Collins would perform the top seven songs of each week. She was later a regular on The Sid Caesar Show and starred in her own short-lived variety series...
...jobs, weekend gigs and outsize hopes. According to Marty Albertson, Guitar Center's co-chief executive, 43% of the chain's customers are aspiring professional musicians, whose purchases account for 40% of revenues--the largest chunk of any customer group. Among them are strivers like Andrew Geonetta, 27, a singer-songwriter who plays club gigs in Cincinnati, Ohio, a few nights a week and works for an interactive design firm during the day. "I'd love to make a living at making music," says Geonetta, who notes he spends about $2,000 a year on music gear and drives...
...Affleck may have called off his wedding to actress and singer Jennifer Lopez yesterday, but the Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin Robbins featured in Affleck’s movie Good Will Hunting are back together after a three-year split...