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Welcome to my Breakfast Table, where I am sitting and reading you amusing bits from past NYTimes Arts Sections, as I go through and throw out old papers in preparation for incoming:

BANDLEADER PETER DUCHIN: His Music Still Makes Society Whirl

Mr. Duchin’s father, Eddy Duchin, was also a bandleader and was famous for a string of Top 10 records in the 1930s. His mother, Marjorie Oelrichs Duchin, was described by newspapers at the time of her marriage as a “New York and Newport socialite,” though by marrying Eddy Duchin, a Jew and an entertainer, she was forced to relinquish her spot in the Social Register. When she died a few days after giving birth to Peter, his father was apparently so pained, and certain that his frail newborn son was also dying, that he decided to go on an extensive tour with his orchestra. Peter ended up being raised amid extraordinary wealth and privilege by his godparents, W. Averell and Marie Harriman. Mr. Harriman, in addition to having served on President Harry S. Truman’s cabinet, and governor of New York, was also one of the richest men in the country.

Croopus! Who's going to write the novel?


JUDGE RULES IN FAVOR OF 'TWILIGHT' AUTHOR

The speech in “The Nocturne,” he wrote, is “an amalgamation of largely archaic and some modern language that is likely unparalleled in either classical or modern literature.”

Don't read much slush, Judge Wright, do you? Stay as sweet as you are.

Date: 2009-12-11 04:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/
Who's going to write the novel?
Edith Wharton?

Date: 2009-12-11 08:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scbutler.livejournal.com
Louis Auchincloss.

Date: 2009-12-11 04:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] writertracy.livejournal.com
This was my favorite line: Ms. Scott had suggested that because of similarities in the novels, involving a wedding, a consummation scene on the beach and a subsequent childbirth, that Ms. Meyer had copied Ms. Scott’s work.

If that's all it takes, then a few romance writers I know should call their lawyers, because she may have ripped them off as well.

Date: 2009-12-11 05:23 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] flake-sake.livejournal.com
Now, that's a judge, who has suffered for his job :)

Date: 2009-12-11 05:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] calimac.livejournal.com
Like the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1960s watching erotic movies to judge whether they were pornographic. (Justice Harlan, who had poor eyesight, would sit next to more conservative justices and ask them to describe to him what was going on.)

Date: 2009-12-12 02:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nutmeg3.livejournal.com
Does it say terrible things about me that now I want to read The Nocturne to check out the "unparalleled" language?

Date: 2009-12-12 03:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] handworn.livejournal.com
Did you pick that "croopus" expression up from Dido, in Joan Aiken's books? I've never seen or heard it anywhere else, is why I ask.

Date: 2009-12-13 08:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] negothick.livejournal.com
hm m m. . . "maintains a very modern and fresh tone":
I suppose the descriptors "modern" and "fresh" are as undefinable as "natural" or "organic," still it's hard to believe Judge Wrong was reading the same Breaking Dawn that produced these gems.
Edward, speaking about the approaching consummation of his marriage to Bella.
"I didn't know what it would be for me. . . what with my being a vampire."
and

"He told me physical love was something I should not treat lightly. With our rarely changing temperaments, strong emotions can alter us in permanent ways."

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