Cheney's 1981 first novel, Sisters, is the most sought-after out-of-print novel in the country this week, according to BookFinder.com, an online search service specializing in hard-to-find books. The site lists three paperback copies for sale; asking price is, ahem, $2,500.
No word on whether Sisters was inspired on any level by the Cheneys' openly gay daughter, Mary. At Lynne Cheney's request, a publisher scrapped plans this spring to reissue the book; the author says she barely remembers the plot.
But is the novel any good? A reviewer on Amazon.com says Cheney's novel is "sure to please everyone from fun-loving fundamentalist Christians to plaid-flannel dykes . . . Lynne proves that even the cutest red-dress-wearing Republican lady craves a little gal-on-gal action at times."
Rod, where's my car? Rocker-turned-crooner Rod Stewart got good reviews from fans for his Usana Amphitheater show Saturday in West Valley City. But after the show, many of Rod's mostly middle-aged fans spent close to an hour wandering Usana's disorienting parking lots, peering through their bifocals in search of their cars.
Funny how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Thirty years ago, many of those concertgoers probably had trouble finding their cars, too - because they were too wasted.
Fessin' up: Steven Fales performed his autobiographical one-man play, "Confessions of a Mormon Boy," in New York this month as part of the city's International Fringe Festival. In the show - which premiered three years ago in Salt Lake City - Fales charts his evolution from BYU grad and devoutly LDS husband and dad to excommunicated outcast, male prostitute and, finally, happy homosexual.
Since the show's Utah debut, Fales just keeps on confessin'. He has staged "Confessions" in San Francisco, Las Vegas and Miami, and will bring a revised version of the show back to Salt Lake City for a two-week run at the Rose Wagner theater beginning Sept. 23.
(With all those confessions, who needs therapy?)
Reviews in New York were good. Theatermania.com called Fales' show "an engaging true-life story that's funny, poignant, and life affirming."
Congrats, Steven. If you can make it there, you can . . . well, you know.
Just the left side of the menu, please: Former University of Utah hoops coach Rick Majerus was back in town last week, and his dietary habits don't seem to have changed much.
Seven months after Majerus resigned mid-season, citing concerns about his weight, he was spotted in the food court of the Crossroads Mall in downtown Salt Lake City. A few nights later, Majerus joined some friends for dinner at Fleming's, the upscale steakhouse at the Gateway mall. Witnesses said he looked thinner than he did last winter, when the coach was reported to have tipped the scales - presumably, industrial scales - at 370 lbs.
So what did the newly dieting Majerus eat at Fleming's?
Onion rings and a whole lot of steak.
Must be the Atkins diet.
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