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...Star Quality Saying Barack Obama's celebrity is a reason he would not make a good President is like saying "Sure, Tiger Woods is a celebrity, but can he play golf?" [Aug. 11]. Woods is a celebrity because he is good at what he does: golf. Obama is a celebrity because he is good at politics. Period. Ignacio Acosta, Arlington, Texas...
Before the accident, the nameless hero of Andrew Davidson's The Gargoyle (Doubleday; 468 pages) was a freakishly handsome, drug-addicted porn star who was also, deep breath, an orphan and a misunderstood genius who secretly wrote poetry. This is what Brits call overegging the pudding. But in the burn ward, he becomes almost plausible. He banters bitterly with his doctors and plans an elaborate suicide. Davidson could have just stopped here and called it The American Patient...
Bill and Ted star--the one who's not Keanu Reeves--hired to write remake of Ramones flick...
...Star Trek's SCOTTY fails to beam up when rocket carrying his ashes breaks apart...
...attempts to dismiss Obama remind me of the Carter-Reagan matchup of 1980, another supposed referendum election. Ronald Reagan was ... a celebrity, a movie star, a right-wing lightweight. It seemed impossible--to most Democrats, at least--that he could win, although he did hold a slight lead going into the conventions. The fall campaign was very close--until, finally, the two candidates debated a week before the election, and the celebrity cleaned the President's clock. "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Reagan asked in his closing statement. He seemed every bit as substantial...