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...chickens named Dalai and Elvis (which kids chase around), along with cats, tarantulas, fish and birds. Boys play poker in the store's Haunted Shack, which sits atop a Plexiglas surface that exposes a gray rat colony below. Saturday afternoons feature offbeat activities like sheep shearing. Customer Carrie Watson's toddler Isabel loves the Monday story readings and the animals. "I would much rather visit an independent than a large store anyway," says Watson...
...Waterboy, Sandler's character in Punch-Drunk Love, Barry Egan, is prone to violence but hates himself for it. Like the rich slacker who returns to elementary school as an adult in 1995's Billy Madison, Egan is ultimately redeemed by the unwarranted love of a woman (Emily Watson). Some will say Sandler has developed an edge--indeed, the R-rated Punch-Drunk Love is much darker than, say, The Wedding Singer--but Sandler has always had a dark side. It has been relegated to his successful, warning-labeled comedy albums. Now, as his fans get older, he's bringing...
...Live budget label. "All their titles get into our Top 20 classical-sales chart," says Tony Shaw, U.K. classical manager for retail chain HMV. "Most get into the Top 10. Recently, Shostakovich's 11th Symphony got to No. 3, beating [popular tenors] Bocelli and Russell Watson." LSO Live is the brainchild of the orchestra's managing director, Clive Gillinson. Before the label launched in 2000, he had been in negotiations with the Musicians' Union for three years. "I knew the majors would have to record less and less core repertoire," he says, "and that they'd eventually be competing against...
When asked why, if this is a love story, his characters don’t live happily ever after, Watson says, “I think all too often people don’t end up with the love of their lives. They end up with someone they love okay and they stick it out, or they don’t. Finus and Birdie never get together, and to some extent it’s a result of bad timing, the odd luck of timing, that so often keeps people so right for each other apart...
While they’re not having sex, the dead play an important role in the novel. Watson says, “the ‘Heaven of Mercury’ [is] everywhere. In the characters’ minds, and their memories, in the presence of the dead in their waking and dreaming lives, and in their communion with spirits, real or imagined.” Finus writes obituaries about his friends and acquaintances for the Mercury newspaper, which he edits and owns. The dead are constantly being summed up into bulleted recollections and pithy paragraphs. Ghostly spirits appear...