Dennis Weaver too? Jesus, what a lousy couple of days. I’ll always remember Weaver’s fantastic performance as the Night Man from Touch of Evil.
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– February 27, 2006Posted in: Obits
Dennis Weaver too? Jesus, what a lousy couple of days. I’ll always remember Weaver’s fantastic performance as the Night Man from Touch of Evil.
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway: Harkaway's latest novel greatly improves on his previous book, The Gone-Away World, which I'm already on record as praising. Angelmaker adopts genre elements without ever feeling like a genre book, and it leads me to believe that Harkaway is well on his way to a narrative grace close to China MiƩville's. Yet inexplicably this very fun book, which includes an eightysomething badass named Edie Banister, a mysterious mechanical object that may destroy the world, farcical scenarios involving lawyers and the police, and some unexpectedly moving moments about fatherhood, doesn't appear to be getting much attention in American newspapers. Nothing from the snobs at The New York Times Book Review, nothing from The Washington Post. And since I can't get Harkaway on Bat Segundo, I hope this Jump Up and Down mention gets you hopping as well.
The Age of Insight by Eric Kandel: Unless you're really pressed for time, forget Jonah Lehrer. If you want to understand creativity and its relationship to neuroscience, then the bowtie-wearing Nobel laureate is your man. In addition to being a physically beautiful book (you will drool over many of the paintings), there are helpful overviews on optical illusions, science, biographical backgrounds, and many vital figures from the Vienna Secession. Kandel's enthusiasm (and his call for greater unity between the humanities and science) is contagious. All Content Copyright Their Respective Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Long ago I stopped believing in the “dying in threes” legend, but Don Knotts/Darin McGavin/Dennis Weaver is still rather eerie.
Well… they say it all comes in 3′s… Hopefully there are no more this week.
A bit of an obscure reference, I realize, but I always loved Dennis Weaver as the cattle driver R. J. Poteet in the miniseries “Centennial.”
Brendan: I’ll see your “Centennial” and raise you a “Captain Planet and the Planeteers.”
Dude, I fold. Unless I can somehow connect Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen to Dennis Weaver. Which I can’t.