Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...figure out The Big Lebowski's loopy plot, but an even better time can be had just watching Bridges' character trying to make sense of the confusion. The plot of The Big Lebowski is a spin on a detective yarn, which begins when the Dude meets a cranky old rich man who also happens to share his name, Jeffrey Lebowski...
...there, you simply have to take advantage of the market. The Observer piece reads like a challenge to our yankee ingenuity. In the old days we would have had to invent some new spindle for the textile factories of Lowell, Mass. Nowadays, we just have to spin a good yarn, go hunting in the archives of one of the old city libraries and boom, we're in the money...
...detailed discussion of Ian's ultimate fate and parentage, of course, would reveal a key secret of the book. But the gentle presence of Ian, in the end, transforms Felix in the Underworld from an enjoyable if hackneyed yarn into something different and superior, a mystery novel with heart...
Mentioned briefly in the book was a yarn, told secondhand to Friedman by a couple who attended one of his lectures in 1972. They claimed that a friend named Grady ("Barney") Barnett, now dead, had told them about coming upon a crashed saucer on the Plains of San Agustin, N.M., about 150 miles west of the Foster ranch, in 1947. Before being shooed away by military police, he claimed, he had spotted several little bodies strewn nearby. Since the story had no apparent connection to Roswell and was given scant credence by Friedman and the authors, it was generally ignored...
...music critic, knows the angst of passing judgment on artists like his subject this week, singer Erykah Badu. So he was much relieved when his own debut novel, My Favorite War, won favorable reviews last year. "Fast, funny and furious," is how the Boston Globe described his satirical yarn of a young African-American journalist (not unlike Farley) laboring for a national publication (not unlike USA Today, his previous employer) in Washington during the Gulf War. Now HBO has optioned My Favorite War for a made-for-cable movie, a prospect that can make even a veteran critic...