Silicon Valley prodigy Joe Firmage left his post at the helm of USWeb after writing 'The Truth,' a work which tries to prove that the high-tech revolution came from space. A group of valley Corvette-lovers are fuming after allegedly being rooked out of their cars by a dealer who says business simply went bad. Just call it the Year of the Rat.
National press takes on the local 'scum vs. swift' debate.
It's not easy being a novelist, says Frederick Busch in A Dangerous Profession , his new look at writers' lives and hard times. The Offspring veer to the puritanical and cautionary on new album, Americana . Good battles evil in Austrian class-based drama The Inheritors . Vince Vaughn pollutes the memory of Anthony Perkins in the remake of Psycho . The romantic classic The Shop Around the Corner is the source for You Have Mail .