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...best excuse came in the form of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature. Often the cap of a literary career, Fo turned his award into yet another opportunity to advance social causes through comedy. If nothing else, his Nobel lecture must be deemed one of the most unusual addresses in the history of the award...
...Priscilla Painton enlisted dozens of staff members with whom they led "unending debates that began months ago," says Beyer. First they chose the categories, including such traditional roles as athlete and teacher, but they also strived to explore some professions for which there are rarely any academic degrees or award programs, such as best advice columnist and best feminist. Then came the process of naming names. "In our staff meetings I had to actually limit the time we'd devote to America's Best because otherwise we wouldn't get any other business done," says Beyer. "It was too much...
...Talent Family) set out on a stop-start, never-ending reading tour that made him comic literature's equivalent of the Rolling Stones. His work continues to be featured on NPR, and this month Me Talk Pretty One Day, the fourth installment in Sedaris' ongoing autobiography, will be awarded the James Thurber Prize, the national book award for humor. Pretty good for a writer whose idea of fun is "sociological problems and medical mishaps...
...took a while for the rest of the world to find out. Today, long after these two gifted vintners founded their award-winning Calera and Byron wineries, a land rush has broken out on California's newest winemaking frontier--its long and rugged central coast. "The only thing I can liken it to is the Oklahoma land rush," says the winemaker known as the "grandfather of Paso Robles," Gary Eberle of Eberle Winery. "Get yourself a wagon, hitch up your horses, grab a couple of stakes and go like hell." When Eberle graduated from University of California at Davis' viticulture...
...weekend of the summer, I prepared for a final trip to the theater, wanting to squeeze in a trip to David Auburn’s Proof, a play which, like Larson’s RENT, also claimed both the Tony and the Pulitzer. The show’s original award-winning star, Mary-Louise Parker, was scheduled to leave, and I had little interest in seeing her replacement, Jennifer Jason Leigh, a talented film actress who seemed lost on stage in Sam Mendes’ gripping revival of Cabaret. And so, determined to see the show, I embarked into...