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They’ve already started talking about robbing Dartboard’s northern residence of Celeris, the convenience store that makes Cabot’s dim basement worth thinking about. Won’t they spare him the furtive pleasure of a fresh-carved dinner in his adoptive riverside home...
...DIED. DON GIBSON, 75, second-grade dropout who went on to write classic country ballads about loneliness and heartache; in Nashville, Tennessee. Gibson was a pioneer of the Nashville Sound, a spare style without fiddles or pedal steel guitars, and wrote two of his most famous songs-Oh Lonesome Me and I Can't Stop Loving You, a Ray Charles hit in 1962-on the day his television and vacuum cleaner were repossessed. "When I wrote those songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom," he said...
South Pacific was plainly an amateur production—I will spare you my tirade against the horn section—but the expert vision of Galper and Rubins held it together; the duo knows what entertainment is all about. This was clear even before we reached our seats: Rubins was greeting every audience member, and enthusiastically told me, “I don’t think you could have chosen a better way to spend your night than to see the show.” She had already half won me over...
...real” and Jessica Simpson ends up in Rolling Stone trying to dispel the notion that she’s as ditzy as she’s depicted on “Newlyweds.” Did you know Ally Hilfiger really loves painting in her spare time? Bet you didn’t, because a painting montage just isn’t as entertaining as a shopping montage. She’s a rich girl, remember? That’s what rich girls do—they go on shopping sprees, they get flustered when they have...
...though the whole world wants to see her, hear the truth about what happened to her and in the process confirm every instinct about the war: what went right, what went wrong, what it means. People will have their chance this week with the publication of Rick Bragg's spare, wrenching account of her life and her war. Diane Sawyer went down to Palestine to see her; this week Lynch will visit New York City for the first time, make the rounds, do Letterman and learn whether the toughness she has shown to make it this far will protect...