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...eventually, hiring 24 drum-banging exorcists for a two-day expulsion ritual. The Caliph's House ends with the residence beautifully renovated and the transplanted Londoners better for the experience. So much better that Shah is working on a sequel. No word on the jinns' next move. - D.M. 6. Tove Jansson, Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip...
...DIED. TOVE JANSSON, 86, Finnish artist and author whose hippo-like trolls, the Moomins, delighted postwar readers and whose books were translated into 35 languages; in Helsinki. She got the original idea during the Nazi rise to power; seeing a quote from Immanuel Kant on a wall, she scribbled cant! and drew an ugly troll next to it. She wanted to write fairy tales but felt princesses were inappropriate to such bleak times. The Guardian called her Moomins "among the greatest creations of children's literature...
...DIED. TOVE JANSSON, 86, the creator of Finland's beloved Moomin trolls; in Helsinki. Jansson wrote and illustrated the original Moomin books, whose tales of the eccentric, hippo-like creatures spawned comic strips, cartoon series and even theme parks. She is also celebrated for her illustrations in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and in an edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. DIED. JOAN SIMS, 71, the British queen of the double entendre; in London. Best remembered for the bawdy, farcical Carry On series of comedy films, she also had a successful stage and TV career. DIED...
BORN. To DARCI KISTLER, 32, New York City Ballet principal dancer, and PETER MARTINS, 49, the troupe's ballet master in chief; their first child; Talicia Tove; in New York City...
...name somehow lacks the imperial grace of such reigning fragrance houses as Chanel and Lanvin. But images can change, and indeed they will have to if Actor Ernest Borgnine, 65, is to become the improbable pitchman for Tova, a semi-namesake scent being marketed by his wife Tove, 41. The Borgnines boldly contend that Tova is "the most expensive perfume to make in the world." The sale price: $55 a quarter ounce (compared with $37.50 for the same amount of Chanel No. 5). Quite a step up for the guy who made his name as a butcher...