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Vincent Delerm cuts an unlikely figure for a pop star, especially a French one. There's no trace of Johnny Hallyday's leathery ostentation, no hint of the designer brooding of a Jean Michel Jarre. With his self-cut thatch of prematurely graying hair, the 28-year-old Delerm prefers casual clothes and tennis shoes, and professes to have neither a computer nor an e-mail address. Though he doesn't dress the part, Delerm can still pull in the crowds. Last month, he played a sold-out five-night stand at the famed Olympia concert hall in Paris...
Unlike Arbus, who distilled every image down to a single, devastating idea, Friedlander loves the muchness of the world. He loves the haphazard multitude of things that can pop up in every picture--street signs, sunbeams, bits of roofline, a jagged shadow--all colliding and contradicting one another. In his breezy but very acute introduction to the show's catalog, Peter Galassi, MOMA's chief curator of photography, gets it just right when he says some of Friedlander's pictures give you the impression that "the physical world had been broken into fragments and reconstituted under pressure at three times...
...Perhaps the nicest handholding feature for beginners is the blurry warning. If you shoot a shaky image, a message will pop up. It says "Picture is blurred. Save picture?" If you were going for blur, you can, of course, save your funky work, but if it wasn't what you wanted, the S1 saves you the trouble of finding out only after it's too late to do anything about it. What can it say? It's a very thoughtful camera...
...Down (Riverhead; 333 pages), you would have gently taken him aside and encouraged him to consign it to that great literary recycling bin into which unwritable novels go. As a writer Hornby is one of the great welterweights-lots of comic flair, good with the voices and the pop culture, always ready with a dash of bittersweet pathos-but he's not generally thought of as swinging a heavy bat, intellectually speaking. There's a reason his books get turned into movies starring John Cusack (High Fidelity) and Hugh Grant (About a Boy) and not Sean Penn and Russell Crowe...
...baby's cord blood, you will have a source of stem cells that uniquely match his or her DNA. The Cord Blood Registry, which claims to be the oldest and largest of these blood banks, says it has frozen more than 300,000 samples at $1,975 a pop--plus a $125 storage fee every year thereafter. A video on its website urges parents to seize this "once-in- a-lifetime opportunity" to rescue priceless cells that would otherwise be thrown away...