Reincarnation the gimmick in lifeless crime drama (Reuters) Reuters - Reincarnation, once largely the province of Hindus and Shirley MacLaine, collides with the world of crime procedurals in "Past Life," which premieres on Tuesday at 9 p.m. EST/PST. "Louis C.K.: Hilarious" may be an acquired taste (Reuters) Reuters - Practically nothing is off-limits for stand-up comic Louis C.K., from toilet training his kids to Hitler and the Holocaust. Compelling `Shadow Tag' a departure for Erdrich (AP)
Gora book must-have for fans of '80s teen flicks (AP)
Power, not money, drove pioneering journalist (AP)
New book on Mays brings `Say Hey Kid' to life (AP)
Elias shows how baseball exported 'American Way' (AP)
Florez and his 9 high C's return to Met Opera (AP) AP - There were plenty of high notes but not quite enough heart as Donizetti's comic romp "La Fille du Regiment" ("The Daughter of the Regiment") returned to the Metropolitan Opera. The heart-on-sleeve melodies in 'Fanny' soar (AP)
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AP - "Shadow Tag" (HarperCollins, 272 pages, $25.99), by Louise Erdrich: Irene and Gil have the sort of life that outsiders might covet. He's a semifamous artist dubbed the "native Edward Hopper," his success great enough to put their family in a three-story house in a fashionable Minneapolis neighborhood and enroll their three children in an exclu......
AP - "You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation" (Crown, 384 pages, $26), by Susannah Gora:
AP - "Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power" (Harper, 576 pages, $29.99), by James McGrath Morris: Web-based technology may leave readers fretful about the future of newspapers, but it's not the first time the industry has undergone revolutionary change.
AP - "Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend" (Scribner, 628 pages, $30), by James S. Hirsch: For the aging fans following him in his prime, Willie Mays was a youthful phenomenon who in time became baseball's happy warrior.
AP - "The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad" (The New Press, 418 pages, $27.95), by Robert Elias: Contrary to popular opinion in the U.S., the young Fidel Castro wasn't one of Cuba's best pitchers and was never offered contracts by American scouts. In fact, U.S. Sen. Eugene McCarthy once ......
AP - There's nothing like a full-throttle, heart-on-sleeve melody to lift the stodgiest of Broadway musicals.
