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News Roundup: Dread gets new Jeep; mum on source
Metro council member Adam Dread, who crashed his Jeep Cherokee a few weeks ago after suffering bleeding in his brain and losing consciousness, is fully recovered and has been spotted around Nashville at the wheel of a new fully loaded Jeep Grand Cherokee. The normally talkative Dread refuses to discuss where he acquired the new vehicle.
“It’s nobody’s business what I drive or where I got it,” he says.
Witnesses report that, curiously, the new Dread ride has a custom vanity plate reading “EMMETT.”
Lee Jeans sues Spike Lee
Jeans maker the Lee Co. has sued filmmaker Spike Lee over his use of the name “Lee” in his movies.
“We want him to just call himself 'Spike’ and leave our name out of it,” says a Lee Jeans spokeswoman, who adds, “We didn’t really care when he was making movies like Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever, but after Bamboozled we’d pretty much had enough. And we had the name 'Lee’ first.”
The filmmaker issued this statement: “I still think Bamboozled was good, and Levi’s fit better than those off-brand jeans anyway.”
Another literary controversy
A couple of years ago, Nashville writer Alice Randall raised hackles and hit the best-seller lists with her Gone With the Wind parody The Wind Done Gone, which told the famous story from the point of view of the plantation slaves.
Now Randall has rushed into print a children’s book that uses a beloved childhood character to comment on the spread of the disease monkeypox.
Curious George in Quarantine is set at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and features the beloved monkey being held for observation after being accused of spreading monkeypox to Midwestern prairie dogs and setting off an epidemic.
“I think this will be another winner,” says a local bookseller. “This is an edgier Curious George than we’ve seen before, and Alice has perfectly presented this monkeypox nightmare. Kids love disease books.”
(The Fabricator is satire. Don’t believe everything you read.)
Now Randall has rushed into print a children’s book that uses a beloved childhood character to comment on the spread of the disease monkeypox.
Curious George in Quarantine is set at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and features the beloved monkey being held for observation after being accused of spreading monkeypox to Midwestern prairie dogs and setting off an epidemic.
“I think this will be another winner,” says a local bookseller. “This is an edgier Curious George than we’ve seen before, and Alice has perfectly presented this monkeypox nightmare. Kids love disease books.”
(The Fabricator is satire. Don’t believe everything you read.)
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