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...Independence Day is coming, the 39th anniversary of Jamaica's emergence from the control of Britain. Outside club Asylum, one of the city's most popular night spots, young Jamaicans--in their teens, 20s and 30s--have begun to gather. Inside, things are slow as the drone of foreign acts--Britney Spears, Whitney Houston, 'N Sync--echoes across the empty dance floor. But out on the streets, kids are making their own scene, to their own sounds. It is a scene like those that nowadays are taking place in cities all over the planet--in Tokyo, in Cape Town...
...lane have left many pining for simpler times. Koreans now routinely repeat the movie's best lines, using the rough accents of Pusan gangsters. Comic-strip versions circulate on the Internet, and tourists now make pilgrimages to Pusan. The movie has been particularly popular with men in their late 30s and 40s, who went to school when the Prussian-style uniforms worn by the movie's four "friends" were still obligatory. The film has sold more than 8 million tickets, making it Korea's biggest blockbuster ever. The most anticipated new releases are Little Match Girl, which generated interest...
...first time was uneventful. I was too scared to drive the boat for more than five minutes, but I tried to glean wisdom by listening. The second person to take me sailing was a concert pianist in his mid-30s. After praising my nascent sailing ability, he asked to exchange emails, so he could continue to give me lessons. I hesitantly agreed, promising myself that I would “lose” his email address as soon as I left the boathouse. Unfortunately, he began to email me. At first it was just to see when I would...
...Jones," "Little Egypt" - the whole raucous, joyous bunch of pastiches bubbled over with sharp point-of-view writing and obscure movie and radio references. Scarface Jones? Bulldog Drummond? Salty Sam and Sweet Sue (in their masterpiece, "Along Came Jones")? Most kids didn?t know that the Shadow was a ?30s radio hero (voiced by Orson Welles), but they couldn?t help laughing at Leiber?s threatening rhymes: "You?d better mind your P?s and Q?s/ And your M?s and N?s and O?s / Because... the Shadow knows...
...sees a pattern to his work: "Ever since Goodbye, Columbus, I've been drawn to depicting the impact of place on American lives. Portnoy's Complaint is very much the raw response to a way of life that was specific to his American place during his childhood in the '30s and '40s. The link between the individual and his historic moment may be more focused in the recent trilogy, but the interest was there from the start." Roth is a serious writer who has never been somber in print; his narrative voice is unique...