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...With reporting by Simon Robinson/Auckland
...Capp's long-gone hillbilly comic strip, Li'l Abner, wasn't elevated humor, but it was funny, and that's pretty much the case with Zeke and Ned (Simon & Schuster; 478 pages; $25), by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. Advocates for Native American rights will be flummoxed to learn that, as the authors tell it, Cherokees endured the Trail of Tears to the Indian Territory only to end up in Capp's Dogpatch...
...true, as they say, that a year on the Internet equals seven in the real world, then Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace (Simon & Schuster; 288 pages; $25) by John Seabrook might have been an epic. Thank goodness it isn't. A travelogue for the literate geek in all of us, Deeper is packed with useful nuggets of info and insight, but its real virtue lies in what it puts aside: the sweeping Olympian perspective adopted by most "wired" writers...
...newspaper ad for singers and dancers to form a new pop group. They soon fell out with their manager, set off on their own and recruited Emma (Bunton). The five started singing (often uninvited) at parties, record-company offices, anywhere they could get noticed. They eventually hired manager Simon Fuller--the man behind Annie Lennox--who signed them with Virgin Records...
...times have changed. While theatergoers on this side of the Atlantic still lament that Broadway is overdependent on British imports, London seems to be infatuated with Americans. Transplants from Broadway like Grease, Smokey Joe's Cafe and Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor are side by side on the West End with Andrew Lloyd Webber extravaganzas. The Royal National Theatre has just revived Richard Eyre's landmark 1982 production of Guys and Dolls, whose success inspired a string of British revivals of classic American musicals. Even so unfashionable, and quintessentially American, a pop figure as Al Jolson...