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JD Salinger, author of the classic novel of adolescent angst The Catcher in the Rye, has died aged 91.
His first book, it inspired generations of teenagers with its themes of alienation and loss of innocence.
Mark Chapman was claimed to be carrying a copy when he shot John Lennon in 1980 – and said it was reading it that drove him to kill.
The revelation made the already reclusive Salinger even more determined to hide away from the world. He wrote three more novels. But 1951’s The Catcher in the Rye had shot him to worldwide fame – selling a total of 60 million copies worldwide.
It details 16-year-old Holden Caulfield’s experiences in New York following his expulsion from an upper-crust school. Salinger admitted it was “sort of” autobiographical. But critics blasted its references to casual sex and prostitution, and some countries banned it.

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Cullman native Channing Tatum, who is shown here with Amanda Seyfried in a scene from “Dear John,” tried his hand at everything from being a construction worker to a mortgage broker to a male stripper before becoming an actor. “Man, I’ve had a crazy life,” Tatum says. “I’m 29 years old, and I’ve met millionaires, billionaires, and I’ve met homeless people and everything in between.” (Everett Collection)
Two years ago, Channing Tatum played a small-town military hero who comes to blows with his best buddy in the Iraq War drama “Stop-Loss.”    Then last summer, Tatum starred as an elite soldier of fortune who takes on a notorious arms dealer in the futuristic action-adventure “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.”    And next week, the Cullman native gets back in uniform for yet another tour of duty in “Dear John,” a war-torn love story based on the same-name novel by romance writer Nicholas Sparks. The movie opens Friday, Feb. 5.    This time, though, t …

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1:30 P.M. To further whet your appetite for style, stop at the Cooper Classics Collection, right around the corner at 132 Perry Street, (212) 929-3909. Here you will find exquisitely restored automobiles, mostly gleaming European models, from every era. The 1954 Jaguar XK120 Roadster is a busty seductress with a sleekly sloping design, while the 1962 Sunbeam Alpine is the very car that James Bond drove in Dr. No. I sell cars all over the world, said the owner, Elliot Cuker. Just last week, we sold two cars to France. Ive sold the king of Morocco almost 30 cars.
2 P.M. To build your shelf, you may require liquid courage. This is obtainable, in the classic style, at the White Horse Tavern, where Dylan Thomas died in poetic misery, 567 Hudson Street, (212) 989-3956. Unwind with a wide selection of beers (most from $3 to $4). Teetotalers may sedate themselves at the more expensive Relax massage parlor, 716 Greenwich Street, (212) 206-9714 (one-hour session, $95).

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An attempt to void the contract would entail a long, adversarial, further-distracting fight before an arbitrator… which the team would likely lose, anyway.
Arbitrators have hardly backed away from challenging the NBA and its teams, even in cases as outrageous as Latrell Sprewell’s physical assault on Coach PJ Carlesimo.
After the Warriors voided Spree’s contract, arbitrator John Feerick, the dean of the Fordham Law School, not only reinstated the contract but shortened Stern’s year-long suspension to the balance of that 1997-98 season.
Nor do the few precedents from similar cases look helpful.
In the fall of 2006, Stephen Jackson, then in Indiana, pleaded guilty to felony recklessness for firing his gun in the air to break up a fight outside a strip club… which also violated his probation for his part in the 2004 Auburn Hills Riot.

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Sooo, proof that Susan Sarandon has been maybe having a bit of a tough time since her breakup? The fact that the 63 year old actress went onstage at “Of Montreal’s” Tuesday night show at the Highline Ballroom and spanked two performers dressed like pigs with a ruler.
One could make the argument that Sarandon has always been a little kooky, given that she starred in Rocky Horror Picture Show, and has gone to stripper classes with her daughter. Still, for those of us who grew up in the 90s, it’s hard to reconcile this bad-ass persona with the woman we identify as mother characters from Little Women and Stepmom.
*Since summer, we have been trying to come up with the correct generalized colloquial spelling for the abbreviated version of “the usual.” “The Yoojz” was the best we could come up with (after spending WAY too much time arguing). Well, do YOU have a better suggestion??? Let us know!

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It’s been said that this whole incident wasn’t as serious as the New York Post initially reported, which said both players pointed guns at each other. Nonetheless, the incident yielded serious consequences for obvious reasons. Arenas’ 50-game suspension is the NBA’s third most severe suspension not involving drugs, behind Ron Artest’s 86-game suspension for his role in the brawl at the Palace of Auburn Hills in 2004 and Latrell Sprewell’s choking of Warriors Coach P.J. Carlesimo in 1997 that ultimately resulted in a 68-game suspension. Meanwhile, Crittenton’s 38-game suspension is the league’s fourth highest. Before this incident, Stephen Jackson’s seven-game suspension for his felony count for criminal reckless driving and firing seven shots near an Indianapolis strip club in 2006 counted as the league’s longest suspension for a gun-related offense.

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The trend took off two years ago, when the Hankyu department store opened in Osaka, Japan, with its entire 16,000 square meters of floor space devoted to masculine products from shoes to cigars. Soon after, Louis Vuitton opened its first men-only store inside Hankyu, replete with leather furniture, pure wool carpet, and a goatskin rug. Around the same time, the British fashion queen Vivienne Westwood, who can spot a forward-looking trend seasons away, also opened her first store geared for men in Tokyo.
Now others are catching on. On Feb. 9, Hermès will open its first men-only store on Madison Avenue in New York. Housed in a classic brownstone, the 817-square-meter interior will resemble a cross between a traditional tailor’s shop and a gentlemen’s club, reimagined with a contemporary vibe. The fourth floor, designed to evoke the feel of a private home, will be devoted to made-to-measure wear, including bespoke suits as well as special-order items like luggage. Meanwhile, a few blocks uptown, Ralph Lauren has announced plans to convert its landmark Rhinelander mansion into a shop for men only, a move that underscores the importance of the menswear market to the company.

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The Glass family saga has been celebrated and derided over the years, but the reputation of The Catcher in the Rye seems set to endure as the classic novel of teenage rebellion. It heralded something new and different in serious literature – a modern vernacular voice, hesitant, shrugging, slangy, occasionally obscene – narrating a story in the first person as though talking to the reader, complete with a full repertoire of verbal tics like “goddam” and “or something”. It told the story of Holden Caulfield, a troubled teenage scholar who has been expelled from his preparatory school in Pennsylvania and, instead of heading home, goes walkabout in New York. He has encounters with a young prostitute, with his old English master (who makes what seems to be a sexual pass at him in the middle of the night) and his adored younger sister, Phoebe; only at the conclusion do we learn that Holden is currently being treated in some kind of sanitarium. …

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It wasn’t hard to see why no one would leap to hang out with him. If I did, it was out of the polite notion that one should finish what one started—in this case a mopey book about a teenage boy. Of course, the reason anyone my age read Salinger in the ’60s was because he was considered slightly racy. Holden swears a lot. He meets a prostitute. He drinks. But he never seems like he has a good time doing any of this. Rereading some of the book recently, I thought Salinger did a fine job of describing the particulars of teenage alienation and frustration, but when I read all that as a teenager, I just remember thinking that this was all stuff I was running from, not anything I wanted to go hunting for in a novel.

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Alex Poch-Goldin plays Mr. Marks, an Orthodox Jewish textile merchant. An award-winning actor, playwright and librettist, he was recently nominated for the 2008 Siminovitch Award. Poch-Goldin starred in The Canadian Stage Company productions of Angels in America, Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, Six Degrees of Separation, Wit, Anybody and Nobody and was a Canadian Stage OAC Playwright-in-Residence. Other credits include: Scorched (Tarragon Theatre/national tour), his opera The Shadow was produced by Tapestry New Opera, and his play The Right Road to Pontypool was produced by 4th Line Theatre and will enjoy a remount this summer. Film and television credits include The Untitled Work of Paul Sheppard, Traitor, Flashpoint, Murdoch Mysteries, Living in Your Car and Wonderland.
Lisa Berry makes her Canadian Stage debut as Mayme, a jazz singer who works as a prostitute. Theatre credits include: Doubt, a parable (The Neptune Theatre/The Globe Theatre); The Crucible (Shaw Festival); The Odyssey (Stratford Shakespeare Festival); Les Liasons Dangereuses (Annex Theatre); Anne of Green Gables (Bathurst Street Theatre); and the European Tour of Fame the …

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