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...millions of devotees of John Gray (Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus), the answer is apparently yes. This week 300,000 copies of the newest addition to Gray's oeuvre, Mars and Venus on a Date, will hit bookstores, and it will tell all sorts of people all sorts of things they already know. Remember that old baseball euphemism from make-out parties in junior high school? Gray, writing as if he invented the metaphor, explains how to get to first base and so on, ending with "sliding into home." More to the point, Mars and Venus...
...sourdough starter here, the mold from which all other efforts have grown, is the 1992 Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, and that, at least, seems to have been a beautiful idea. It has sold a staggering 6 million copies--making it, according to publisher HarperCollins, the best-selling hard-cover nonfiction book ever--and has been published in 38 languages. The book has earned Gray somewhere in the neighborhood of $18 million. And that's not counting the spin-offs. So far Gray has produced Mars and Venus in the Bedroom, Mars and Venus in Love, Mars...
...addition to the books, there's an infomercial, sets of audiotapes and videotapes, weekend seminars, a CD-ROM, Mars and Venus vacations and a one-man show that began with a Broadway appearance last February and will continue at arenas across the country this summer. Gray also has a movie deal with 20th Century Fox and a planned sitcom. His new CD features a Mars and Venus song co-written by that Renaissance man Gray himself and performed as a sort of call and response by his-and-her vocalists. (Sample lyrics: Her: "Every time I try to tell...
Even though emotional range is not generally demanded of humanoid marine reptiles, a new, live-action version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, set to air on Fox in September, will feature a female turtle named Venus De Milo alongside the original four males. In Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book, an updated version of the Rudyard Kipling story that will also air on Fox Saturday mornings in the fall, a 13-year-old girl named Nahbiri moves to India with her father and has to face the wrenching challenge of adjusting to a different culture. Things would...
...chose to invest my money in Central Square, and I don't want my Square to end up like Harvard Square," said Dana Stone, proprietor of the Venus Coffee House. "I don't want the area to lose that vibrancy, that ethnic mix, and that flavor...