(By Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times) I believe it was my mother who first admonished me never to presume that "you know what really goes on in another person's marriage."Well, Mom, meet the Sanfords of South Carolina, whose odd and tumultuous union is now an open book, thanks to "Staying True," Jenny Sanford's memoir of a marriage that only can be described as the Contract With America meets Southern gothic.Read more:
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In 1960, Bobbie, now 69, spotted Fred, now 70, in the cafeteria of the bank where she worked. She liked what she saw:The grin: I noticed a new employee who was handsome, charming and grinned at me each day. I didn't know he worked with a young man I was casually dating. I also didn't know the new guy, Fred, had just enlisted in the Navy and was to leave for boot camp in two weeks.Read more:
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(By Allan Kozinn, New York Times) Leonard Bernstein: Omnibus - The Historic TV BroadcastsDVD, E1 Entertainment ($49.98)Read more:
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There's a television in my dining room. Not some little flat screen in a breakfast room. But a giant, 32-inch boob tube in my formal dining area. On a stand, no less. It used to be upstairs in the playroom, but it died four weeks ago. The Husband and a friend brought it down and plopped it in here."No, no, no, take it all the way out or it'll sit here for a month," I assured them. And so it has.Read more:
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(By David Hiltbrand, The Philadelphia Inquirer) Jersey Shore8 p.m. Saturday, MTVRead more:
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) You'd never call Drive-By Truckers main man Patterson Hood a slacker, especially when it comes to writing. His band's 11th album will be out next month, on top of the solo album he released last year, and there's yet another Truckers album in the can.Read more:
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(By Jeff Jackson, Special Correspondent) Although his novels have been acclaimed by Don DeLillo, Gordon Lish and other luminaries, Frank Lentricchia remains one of the best-kept secrets in contemporary fiction.Lentricchia has written a series of increasingly accessible and provocative novels, but they've been published by small presses and failed to reach the audience they deserve. Even literary critics have been slow to recognize his work, probably because Lentricchia actually made his reputation as a critic.Read more:
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