Heck, Some People Can’t Even Spell Pullitzer Prise
Winning a Pulitzer Prize can do wonders for a writer’s life. Or nothing at all. Here are three different reactions to this year’s awards, which were announced on Tuesday:
Philip Levine, poetry (for his collection “The Simple Truth”): “My wife will be thrilled. We’ll go out tonight and get plastered. And Friday the real work starts all over again.”
Carol Shields, fiction (for the novel “The Stone Diaries”): “This is completely naive, but I thought the Pulitzer had already been awarded this year.”
Horton Foote, drama (for his play, “The Young Man From Atlanta”): “I’m happiest in the theater. You do your work, and you’re grateful if something nice happens.”
Loose talk
Bob Saget on the idea of reuniting the cast of “Full House” (in TV Guide): “I don’t think you’ll be seeing ‘Full House’ in another incarnation unless someone wants to put on those Brady wigs in 20 years.”
All fun and no work makes Jack anything but a dull boy
Jack Nicholson turns 59 today.
Not bad, Mikey, nice of you to inquire
“How’s married life?” a reporter yelled to Michael Jackson as he toured his Neverland estate on Tuesday with wife Lisa Marie Presley and 46 kids from 17 countries. “Great,” Jackson answered. “How’s yours?”
Still a Child at heart, Julia’s got a new recipe for living
Even at 82, Juila Child knows what nourishes the human soul. Widowed since last year, the expert on French cuisine is keeping company with a new man. “It’s nice having a chap around,” she said. “And you don’t have to marry anyone anymore.”
It makes a difference if you grow up in Aiea or Ewa Beach
“Jeopardy” host Alex Trebek hates to pronounce Hawaiian words. Why? Because he can’t with his trademark ease. For example, consider the following description: “A mountain on the island of Kauai that holds the title of being the world’s wettest place, with an average annual rainfall of 470 inches.” The answer, put in question form, is “Waialeale” (which is pronounced WHY-ah-lay-ah-lay). “It looks like it should be ‘Wai-le-ah-leah,”’ Trebek said.
It’s so nice of Big Al to forgive those whom HE insulted
Syracuse University’s graduating law class asked Sen. Alfonse D’Amato to be its commencement speaker. Then he did his impersonation of Judge Lance Ito, and the students voted 106-94 to rescind the invite. D’Amato was disappointed, he said, “especially since my son, Christopher, is one of the graduates. I accept the students’ decision and harbor no ill feelings even though they were unwilling to forgive me.”
It’s only a matter of time: The O.J. Simpson Trial Game
British actress Helen Mirren (“Prime Suspect”) sees the O.J. Simpson trial much the same way that many of us do. “The lawyers will do something absolutely nauseating,” she says, “and then the commentator will say, ‘Excellent, he’s really scored a point there!”’
The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Compiled by staff writer Dan Webster