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...white-male-dominated genre of science fiction; of head injuries from a fall; in Seattle, Wash. A loner and self-described "oil-and-water" mix of "ambition, laziness, insecurity [and] certainty," Butler subverted sci-fi stereotypes to tackle issues like racism and poverty in books like Kindred, the tale of a black woman who time-travels back to the antebellum South. In 1995, she became the only sci-fi writer ever to receive a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant...
...slash-high-school student. Unfortunately his buddy X-Ray (another Holes alum) gets him back into trouble over a ticket-scalping scheme. And when a chance meeting gets Armpit mixed up with a teen pop superstar (the tickets were for her concert), things get complicated. It's a fairy-tale setup, but Sachar gives his characters real emotions and real problems, and the result is a surprisingly wise book that never cloys or condescends...
...oddest twist in the tale may be that DiLeonardo was apparently referring to an entirely different Gotti lover and love child. But the media circus is unlikely to move on just yet, what with such juicy new acts as a jailhouse videotape uncovered by Capeci of a 1998 conversation between Gotti and his brother Peter. On the tape, the Mob boss talks wistfully of Connelly's "precious little kid." "She look like I told you?" he asks his brother. "I feel bad I can't do the right thing, but what am I gonna do, you know what...
...Hopefully the same attitude won’t prevail in the Best Documentary category, where the current favorites are those pesky penguins. If all the voters carefully watch the nominees, they will undoubtedly conclude that the byzantine tale of Nile perch and encroaching globalization in “Darwin’s Nightmare”—the best film...
...actually crafts a plot around the movie he stars in. He jets to L.A., rolls to the spot, gets him-self looking good, and goes to his own movie premiere where a packed house enjoys “ATL,” a tale of youth and dreams set in, you guessed...