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...very first page of Shalimar the Clown, Salman Rushdie's new novel, the reader has a horrible presentiment that a literary disaster is in the making. Rushdie is trying to describe a woman speaking in her sleep: she is "like Sigourney Weaver channeling a demon in Ghostbusters." This is the kind of bathos?the desperation to prove his hipness by making asinine references to pop culture?that helped sink Rushdie's last novel, Fury, generally acknowledged to be the worst he has written. After a first-page blunder like this, it requires a leap of faith simply to turn...
CHECKED IN. Rapper EMINEM, 32; to an undisclosed rehabilitation center; for a dependency on sleep medication. The news came two days after cancellation of his European tour...
...charms that are performed on us, while good, are only sleight of hand—and only partially redeem a plodding movie. Even the spells at the end are occasionally flawed as horrors miraculously reappear to an almost-comical effect. Many will be seduced to sleep without ever realizing that “The Skeleton Key” actually has a little something to offer. This little something is still not quite enough for moviegoers to curse themselves with a $10 ticket, but for those who keep watching, it will conjure goose bumps...
LeJeune’s mother, who was also volunteering, brought Lovechild a pair of white Birkenstock clogs, the kind worn by nurses. A few minutes later, Kathy LeJeune, 46, returned with a promise of a night’s sleep at a nearby church...
...campus when I wake up 10 minutes before class, bleary-eyed and stumbling in my sleep-deprivation-induced clumsiness, one saving grace—others include the shuttle, the seven-minute rule, and Apple Crispitos—is under...