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...incapable of any real impact. Unfortunately, it has been made only too clear since the election that Mr. Limbaugh's words are not trivial. Incoming first-term Republicans have called themselves the "Dittohead Caucus," in homage to Limbaugh, and as a speaker at their preinaugural conference, he gave not comic relief, but advice to the newly elected class. Many Republicans have credited him with the achievement of majorities in both houses of congress for the first time in forty years. Recently, Chair of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan called Mr. Limbaugh, hoping to persuade him to advocate the Mexican loan...
...them, because everyone knows Jackie does his own stunts-including some (the coals, the peppers, the industrial alcohol) that suggest Method acting taken to the edge of madness. Lest doubts linger, his films provide instant replays from different angles. Under the closing credits are outtakes showing blown stunts, with comic or near tragic results. Executing a fairly routine jump in Yugoslavia for The Armour of God, he missed a tree branch, hit his head on a rock and almost died. Chan has a memento of the accident: a thimble-size hole in the right side of his head...
Thus collectors must be interesting, no? No, it turns out, in Geoff Nicholson's cheerfully loopy comic novel Hunters & Gatherers (Overlook; 215 pages). Nicholson's hero, a feckless would-be writer named Steve Geddes, has unwisely taken a publisher's advance to produce a book on collectors. But the collector collector finds that his subjects, though daft, are stunningly boring. An obsessed gatherer of sounds has recorded utter silence in Namibia, the Sahara and the Australian outback. One human rodent, who promises to show Geddes the world's largest beer-can collection, leads him to a completely empty room. Curses...
That is due largely to Rock's fine ferocity. A Liverpool club comic who never acted before, but who has survived an abusive marriage, Rock asks for no quarter and gives none. Here is a mother, she says, dishing it out and taking it. Now you decide what to do with Maggie, and the millions of women like her, in England, America and around the world...
...honored with a place in Westminster Abbey's memorial window near Poets' Corner next week. The Valentine's Day unveiling of a diamond-shape glass plaque inscribed with his name and dates of birth and death will coincide with the 100th anniversary of the opening night of his comic masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde's pane joins those dedicated to Alexander Pope and Robert Herrick in the window, which was installed last year above the tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer and near the Poets' Corner memorials of Lord Byron and D.H. Lawrence. DRESDEN. In 1709 Augustus the Strong, King...