Here's Tom Snyder, back from the grave. Here's Dee Dee Myers and Tim Russert and Charles Grodin and Montel Williams, not to mention Charlie Rose, not to mention Jay and David and Conan. While I've been reciting them, two more talk shows have come into being. Grab a lifeboat. There's a new blockbuster novel, The Horse Whisperer .
Reviewers say that it's no good, but it's big.
That's what counts. Three million dollars for the movie rights, over three million for the book. Draw the blinds. There's a new blockbuster political figure, Colin Powell, comes packaged with the big blockbuster story of his life. They don't come any bigger.