- Newsweek - Stalking John Malkovich?
"When I met Charles, he said, 'Hello, I'm a big fan of
yours,'" remembered Malkovich. "I said, 'Charles, please don't say that. I
know. I've read the script.'"
- Salon - Dear Mr Blue: Advice for Lovers and Writers
Most Boy
Scouts would have been able to arrange an
illicit liaison better than this. First, you fell for
your wife's friend, then you told your wife that
you had and then you wrote it all out in a letter.
Incredible.
- Salon - "Surreal Lives" by Ruth Brandon
"Jacques Vaché,"
Breton later wrote, "is the Surrealist in me." He would also say
that the ultimate surrealist act was to walk into the street with a
loaded revolver and fire at random: a touch of pure Vaché.
- Brill's Content - In Search of Maureen Dowd
"You're writing about Maureen Dowd? God help you!" he gasps.
- Civilization Online - Middle-Ground Mud
"Why did Bill Clinton cross the road?"
"Because he wanted to get to the middle."
- No More Illusions - An Interview with Martin Amis
AL:
So you think that they're going to give you the Nobel this year for this book?
MA:
Yeah.
- May 17 Chat with David Foster Wallace
dfw: I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt as sadness. I think the main function of contemporary irony is to
protect the speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.
- Salon - Letter from occupied Bel-Air
Martin Landau was there, however. What I like most about him
(aside from his performance in "Ed Wood") is that his wife has got
to be 28, tops. Go Martin!
- Cronenberg meets Rushdie
Cronenberg: I was going to ask you about driving, because I've raced cars....
Rushdie: I've hardly driven a car in six and a half years. But I love cars.
- SIGNUM - Word Puns
"If a cowboy is deranged, then a model is deposed."
