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...couple weeks before the movie came out. Now, just as I'm immersed in thesis work on postmodern fairy tales and a book called Wicked by Gregory Maguire, I get word that ABC is running the miniseries of the novel in the spring (Demi Moore might play the Wicked Witch of the West in this revisionist Wizard of Oz). Shouldn't I get points for picking hot topics?... A WB press agent gushed, "Tori Spelling is the next Lucille Ball." Where's the Kaopectate?... Blah blah UC presidential candidates blah blah. I'm tired of presidential elections. They're sooooo...
...creation of four works of art: Rob Nilsson's 1987 film Heat and Sunlight (60 hours), Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez's 1999 The Blair Witch Project (eight days), George A. Romero's 1968 Night of the Living Dead (six days) and Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 (49 hours...
...would hate myself in the morning." It became a memorable line, and it makes an appropriate title for Lardner's breezy, engaging memoir, I'd Hate Myself in the Morning (Nation Books; 198 pages; $22.95). Reams have been written about the Hollywood blacklist and the witch hunts of the late '40s and early '50s. Lardner was a notable victim of all this, not only serving a prison term for contempt of Congress but also finding himself barred for more than a decade from working for the major U.S. studios. He does not, however, write like a victim: "The blacklist...
...also relies on the same pacing, colors, stars (Willis and a Haley Joel look-alike), and even kitchen (!) as The Sixth Sense. Bounce showcases a been-there-done-that Benneth love affair, Charlie's Angels is a pastiche of allusions, and floundering somewhere in this mix is a Blair Witch sequel which is only seen when other movies at the multiplex are sold...
...Gore is "a proven liar, a pathological prevaricator." Democrats arguing Gore's case are "mind-numb morons," "vicious political hacks" and "just a bunch of sleaze-bag crooks." Don't believe a word spoken by Gore campaign chairman Bill Daley: "All he does is lie." Hillary Clinton is "the witch" and, in an allusion to Vincent Foster's death, "the First Murderer." Half of America - the Democratic half - is "socialist." Or worse. After all, Gore won the popular vote because "Communist Kate Couric" and the rest of the media "prayed to Khrushchev" for a victory...