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...strategic game is changing too, as networks leapfrog directly to new media with original shows. NBC could never compete on the air with Fox's American Idol, but this summer on its website, NBC is trying a talent search called StarTomorrow, produced by record exec Tommy Mottola (a.k.a. Mariah Carey's ex). Also this summer, Fox's animated hit Family Guy--resurrected on TV after huge DVD sales--will find its third (but probably not its last) life online with new episodes...
...book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down." Taking the thought a step further, to write poetry and then expose it to the scrutiny of your peers and a renowned poet may be to appear with no clothes at all. That takes a rare degree of bravado, talent or self-delusion. Struggling to know which of those qualities he possesses is Larry Campbell, the neurotic young poet hero of Lynn Coady's very funny new novel, Mean Boy (Doubleday Canada; 382 pages), a sharp take on the follies of poets, academia and the small world of Canadian literature...
...Larry doubts that great talent can emerge from the kitschy tourist zone on Prince Edward Island where his parents run a Highwayman Motor Hotel, and he leaves the island to attend university. He takes heart in another poet's observation about those tough writing days when the poem grins back while "I chop it like a mean boy." And there are plenty of days when Larry can see a poem in his typewriter grinning back at him, displaying what he imagines as a mixture of embarrassment, pity and superiority: "I may be a terrible poem, it grins, but at least...
...years, IHS has been very successful at combatting infectious disease in the Native American community, but that chronic illness—health problems related to lifestyle and behavior—remains a problem. “We need to enlist support—both in terms of resources, talent, and ideas—from other entities that have the competency to help us,” Nolan said. Norman and Lopez said that one of the first steps they have taken is to ask HUNAP’s Faculty Advisory Board, comprised of professors from almost all of the University?...
...Hockney is privy to.The last paintings in the gallery are from 2005, and like most of Hockney’s oeuvre, they are vibrant and personal. They conclude, without being didactic, the transparent trajectory by which visitors understand how this fantastic artist’s growth is based on talent and fueled by a need for experimentation.Downstairs, a far smaller exhibit brings together posters advertising San Francisco rock concerts in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their deep oranges, pinks, turquoises, and greens rotate in spirals, grace the arabesques of illegible typography, and decorate faces, flowers, and animals.The psychedelic style...