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...Franzen's gloomy observation has not deflected him or three other gifted writers of his acquaintance: Donald Antrim, Rick Moody and David Foster Wallace, last year's young literary comet. Only two months after Franzen's complaint, Wallace made a connection with Infinite Jest, his 1,000-page opus about an early 21st century North America splintered by drugs, fanatics and a business ethic so venal that even the months of the year have product names...
...sold-out performances last year. Riverdance the CD won a Grammy last month and remains the top-selling album on Billboard's world music chart. pbs broadcasts of both productions have garnered high ratings for the network during pledge-drive months. Taped versions of Riverdance and Flatley's new opus are, respectively, the second and third best-selling home videos in the country (just behind Bambi...
When documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' latest opus, Thomas Jefferson, debuted on PBS last month, complete with the voice of Gwyneth Paltrow reciting the diary entries of Jefferson's granddaughter Ellen Coolidge, at least one history buff in America bailed out before the closing credits. "I couldn't bear it," says Michael Cascio, executive producer of the A&E network's hour-long documentary series Biography. Cascio is annoyed that Burns' often tiresomely long dissertations are the standard by which all TV documentaries should be measured. "We're trying to develop a style without having to linger on a meadow...
...will be between covers. But don't start making room on your bookshelf just yet for all these would-be TV authors. Remember Rosie O'Donnell's reportedly $3 million book deal? Jamie Raab of Warner Books (owned by Time Warner, as is her show) says her opus, which was due out this fall, remains in an "embryonic" stage. And the deal John Tesh signed in 1995 for a memoir is off. "Right now," says a William Morrow spokesman, "John wants to concentrate on his music...
...intents and purposes, Proposition 187, the magnum opus of the xenophobic crusade against Hispanic illegal immigrants, is dead, slowly wasting away in the California court system. What has happened since the time this heinous document was thrust into the face of all Latinos, whether they are citizens or not? Surprisingly, very little. Despite the outright fear and racism inherent in Proposition 187's rhetoric, Hispanics as a whole have been slow to react to it. This silence has allowed Proposition 187 to spawn continued support of its message in its brief and tumultuous life, most recently in the form...