Word: morrison
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...yearnings as 12 Step groups, book clubs are invading homes, apartments and even TV studios. It's ironic. Oprah Winfrey, the woman once charged with debasing American culture through years of tacky psychodramas, has become, in a flash, the torchbearer of literacy, promoting such solidly challenging fare as Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon along with such worthy popular entertainments as Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone. Her book-club selections are instant megasellers, even when, like The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton, they have fallen into virtual obscurity. The result for publishers has been happy confusion...
That would be Val Kilmer the meticulous student of each role he plays, from randy Jim Morrison in The Doors to the courtly, consumptive Doc Holliday in Tombstone. On that night in Australia, says Noyce, "he was already acting the role of the Saint." Later Noyce and scriptwriter Wesley Strick trekked to South Africa, where Kilmer was shooting another film. "Let's go," the actor greeted them. He hopped into a Land Rover and, steering wheel in one hand, cigarette in the other, drove them madly across dirt roads to a distant campsite where he was living in a tent...
...sweetest guy in the world and his looks would still exude threat. His face is a billboard for California lust, with cool blue-green eyes, sucked-in cheeks and those Halloween wax lips, ever puckered and pouty. The rock-star-satyr features surely helped land him the Morrison role, as well as those cartoon ghosts of the King of Rock 'n' Roll in Top Secret! and True Romance. Yet the look stops just short of drop-dead handsome. Its steely seriousness--all that grit and drive with no hint of easy humor--suggests less Elvis Presley than Elvis Stojko...
...place for classic food and classic rock, the Tasty occupies its own niche in the music world. Yesterday morning a 4:30 a.m. patrons were sipping their coffee to Van Morrison's "Gloria" and various super-hits from the Allman Brothers...
Past recipients of both the Nobel Prize and the Common Wealth Award include Derek Walcott, Charles Townes, Henry A. Kissinger '50, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nadine Gordimer, Toni Morrison and Cesar Milstein...