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Jonah Lehrer
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RANDALL KING / MOVIES
Classified lad
Not many movies could be said to be inspired by a true classified ad, but Safety Not Guaranteed (opening tomorrow at the Globe) actually was. Screenwriter Derek Connolly let his imagination run wild after reading an ad that ran in Backwoods Home Magazine in 1997 requesting a time-travel companion. It was reportedly written as a filler by John Silveira, an employee of the magazine. He can be seen in the movie when three magazine employees are staking out a post-office box. Silveira is the first person they see.
ROB WILLIAMS / MUSIC
Supernatural Animals
Baltimore electro-weirdos Animal Collective have unveiled the first single from their forthcoming album, Centipede Hz, set for release on Sept. 3. The new track, Today's Supernaturals, is a hodge-podge of sounds and styles, ranging from trippy carnival-esque accordion to spaced-out reggae (complete with bongos), with vocalist Avey Tare singing, wheezing, stuttering and sputtering seemingly stream-of-consciousness lyrics about "a rabid see-saw" and "bionic hee-haw."
MORLEY WALKER / BOOKS
A sad and cautionary tale
With three books to his credit and still only 31 years old, American science writer Jonah Lehrer had a phenomenal career ahead of him. It went up in smoke earlier this week when he admitted to making up quotes by Bob Dylan in his latest book, Imagine, about the mysteries of human creativity. His publisher stopped shipments of the book, which came out in March, and Lehrer resigned from his staff writing job at The New Yorker. What a sad waste of talent.
KEVIN PROKOSH / THEATRE
How Swede It is
The August edition of Vanity Fair is full of compelling reads, including How Microsoft Lost It's Mojo and a cool essay called Nordic Exposure, about the sudden conspicuousness of Scandinavia (which is called "Europe's Canada, gentle giant of the North"). While referencing everything from Steig Larsson murder mysteries to shopping stars IKEA and H&M, author A.A. Gill offers a fresh reading of the iconic Edvard Munch masterpiece The Scream, which recently sold for $120 million.
JILL WILSON / MOVIES
Will he have to buy his own popcorn?
Life of Pi author Yann Martel says he will be "first in line" to see the movie version of his celebrated 2001 novel when it opens in December. Martel, who is based in Saskatoon, told the Toronto Star recently that he is "as curious as anyone" to see what celebrated director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) has done with his Booker Prize-winning tale of an Indian boy shipwrecked with a Bengal tiger. The movie's official trailer was posted online last week. http://bit.ly/MG1TMN
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 2, 2012 E2
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