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...country?s best known songwriter, now 30, was drafted into the armed forces. News of his induction was bigger than Elvis'; a tabloid headline trumpeted: "Army Takes Berlin!" The noted wag Wilson Mizner wondered, "What does the Army want with Irving? Up to now the Allies had a chance!" The Army wanted him to do what he did best: write songs. While serving at Camp Upton, near Yaphank, Long Island, he composed a musical for the boys to put on, and late that summer "Yip Yip Yaphank" transferred to Broadway. The show had a couple of hits: "Mandy...
...various legal battles took up even more of his time. In 1976 he had to pay $587,000 for "subconsciously plagiarizing" the old Chiffons hit He's So Fine in his melody for My Sweet Lord. In 1991, he brought a seven-figure defamation-of-character suit when the tabloid the Globe published a story calling him a "Big Nazi Fan." And in 1996 he won an $11.6 million judgment against his former business partner in HandMade films, Denis O'Brien, for not assuming his agreed-upon share of the company's debt. That same year Harrison asked authorities...
...various legal battles took up even more of his time. In 1976 he had to pay $587,000 for "subconsciously plagiarizing" the old Chiffons hit He's So Fine in his melody for My Sweet Lord. In 1991, he brought a seven-figure defamation-of-character suit when the tabloid the Globe published a story calling him a "Big Nazi Fan." And in 1996 he won an $11.6 million judgment against his former business partner in HandMade films, Denis O'Brien, for not assuming his agreed-upon share of the company's debt. That same year Harrison asked authorities...
...unlikely blend of tabloid luridness and brainy cultural commentary, Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Awards, is held together by the voice of the elder Charlotte, corrosively cynical yet fearless in her honesty. She is the sort of woman who, as her career and its privileges evaporate, can calmly observe, "We are interchangeable--the first lesson one learns as a professional beauty." She asks, "How could I resist the offer of attention and money, the very polestars whose gleaming emanations had navigated my existence?" when she's approached by a creepy website that stage manages events...
...minutes, Monstropolis is a great place to live, as you survey this dense comic universe, beautifully visualized by director Pete Docter and his team. A delicatessen is a grossery, a tabloid The Daily Glob. Before a date--say, dinner and a monster truck rally--the male applies his odorant (Smelly Garbage, Wet Dog). Even minor characters have cunning personalities. Mike's girlfriend (Jennifer Tilly) has five live snakes for hair ringlets, and when she idly says of her 'do, "I'm thinking of getting it cut," each reptile snaps into a horrified doubletake...