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...person, Mark Leyner barely resembles the fictional persona of his novels, the Lamborghini-driving, debauched literary superstar whose books can touch off riots in Third World countries. Leyner, a soft-spoken family man from Hoboken, N.J. has built a cult following from his outrageously funny fiction. The protagonist of Mark Leyner's latest novel, The Tetherballs of Bougainville, is a 13-year-old boy named "Mark Leyner" who has won a $250,000 per-year fellowship for a screenplay he hasn't yet written; his father, convicted of murdering a mall guard with a cuisinart, has been placed on "Discretionary...
Sinai is most worried by "a very intense and unprecedented global credit crunch and balance-sheet contraction" that seems to be getting steadily worse. He runs down a kind of box score: nine of 13 countries on the Pacific Rim of Asia that once accounted for a third of world output "are in depression or recession, and we're still counting"; Japan, the world's second biggest economy, "is still going down--it looks like a drop of 2% this year"; in Latin America, Venezuela and Colombia are in recession and Brazil is "in a very dicey situation," saddled with...
...motorcade and a handful of Foggy Bottom specialists, few noticed that Saudi Arabia's virtual ruler had come and gone. The low-profile trip generated scarcely a headline, the way the cautious Saudis prefer it. But this was no ordinary visit. It was the third leg of a monthlong coming-out tour of major world capitals to deliver an important if understated message: after three years of uncertainty in the kingdom, marked by terrorist bombings, plummeting oil prices and the continuing illness of King Fahd, 75, Abdullah is taking charge...
...maybe Gershwin's greatest legacy is his third answer: how to use jazz in songs. To put it another way, What greater musical legacy has America given the world than the songs of Gershwin, Cole Porter and the rest of the gang? What body of our music has been more widely played, admired and memorized around the world than the jazz-flavored songs known as standards? And where did they come from? Listen...
...idea of opening a violent and depressing film about World War II in the middle of the summer--a time usually reserved for action movies, comedies, action comedies and sequels--must have sounded rather brazen to colleagues and competitors alike. Yet by Labor Day weekend Saving Private Ryan's box office receipts totaled $166.6 million, making it the second-highest grossing film of the summer. Spielberg's war has both won over the critics (Joel Siegel gushes that he "can't wait to see it for the third time") and the American public, with whom the movie has clearly...