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Truthiness in Advertising the Uninflated Life Is Not Worth Living 4CHICAGO READER | JANUARY 20, 2006 | SECTION ONE [email protected] Hot Type www.chicagoreader.com/hottype Truthiness in Advertising The uninflated life is not worth living. By Michael Miner ucky are the people who can talk about their lives as if L they were actually interest- ing. People lacking this gift are obliged to lead lives that truly are, often at great personal risk and inconvenience. Or they can settle for being bores. James Frey has the gift, and it’s bedazzled literary types such as his publisher, Nan Talese, and his popularizer, Oprah Winfrey. For them his “truthi- ness” will suffice—to apply the American Dialect Society’s word of the year: “the quality of pre- ” ferring concepts or facts one “ wishes to be true, rather than truth concepts or facts known to be true.” A truthy life is the life most people live, even the raconteurs. Especially the raconteurs. Wherever a truthy life runs thin on content, it’s spackled with confabulation. Pulitzer-winning historian Joseph Ellis lived most truthily. Until the facts were clarified a few years ago, it was under- stood around Mount Holyoke Winfrey could have taken him fashioned true-false test admin- As a teenage ambulance driver Hemingway lived in a different College, where he taught, that under their wing and given his istered by thesmokinggun.com. in World War I, Ernest time, a time when he could call he’d been a paratrooper in nightmare a chance to galvanize Doubleday, which produces the Hemingway was hit in the leg by his books novels and people Vietnam and served on the staff the nation. And last week when books Talese personally over- machine-gun fire. Recovering would read them anyway. Frey of General Westmoreland. As DNA testing finally told us that sees, reminded us in a state- from his unremarkable wounds, told King he originally tried to fate would have it, these stir- Coleman had indeed committed ment that a memoir is “highly he was smitten with a nurse, who sell A Million Little Pieces to ring chapters of his past did not the murder in 1981 that he was personal,” and Frey’s “was eventually let him down easy as publishers as a novel but when occur, but Ellis assumed a biog- executed for in 1992, they could his story, told in his own much too young. He couldn’t Doubleday bought the book raphy true to the stuff he knew have protested indignantly that way...true to his recollections.” afford to describe the experience “they thought the best thing to himself to be made of. for millions of readers Coleman’s As Frey was being interviewed the way it really happened, so in do was publish it as a memoir.” For the last ten years of his life memoir “remains a deeply live by Larry King, Winfrey got The Sun Also Rises Jake Barnes Talese insists the book “was Roger Keith Coleman lived inspiring and redemptive story.” on the horn and told King, stoically endures a wound worse never once discussed as fiction truthily on death row as an inno- Actually, that language “The underlying message of than death, and beautiful women by me or anyone in my office.” cent man. If he’d written the showed up in Doubleday’s redemption in James Frey’s adore him anyway. In A Farewell If you think Frey did wrong— book that was obviously in him— defense of A Million Little memoir still resonates with me. to Arms Frederic Henry not only well, that’s fine. If not, you about injustice, anger, and per- Pieces, Frey’s 2005 best seller And I know that it resonates wins the beautiful nurse but might be interested in my latest sonal growth—Talese and that recently flunked an old- with millions of other people.” eventually buries her. idea to restore newspapers to CHICAGO READER | JANUARY 20, 2006 | SECTION ONE 5 ® The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams I’ve noticed that when people want to “prove” that humans are capable of amazing things under stress, they often cite the 90- pound mother who lifts a car off her trapped child. I know humans can do incredible things, like the guy who chopped his own hand public favor—a regular feature rights battles were being fought off to get free from a fallen boulder, but have mothers really to be known as Mythellanea. in venues that at the time hoisted cars? Has anyone actually seen this happen or is it an Readers will be invited to con- seemed more consequential tribute first-person accounts of than the basketball court, black urban legend? Are we talking about a Yugo here or a 1956 Caddy? dramatic, character-building basketball players were already a Let me know soon, Unca Cecil—I’m trying to walk more these travails. Documentation won’t common sight, and everyone be necessary so long as contrib- knew that Texas Western, win days, and if I get run over I need to know whether to call mom or a utors can assure readers that or lose, wasn’t the strongest col- tow truck. —Eric Rapp, Los Angeles the story is truthy—that is, the lege team in America. The best redemptive moment is being was the UCLA freshman team, lways smart to be prepared, picked the car up under nor- described the way the writer led by Lew Alcindor and Lucius Eric. I haven’t gotten to the mal circumstances, wants to remember it. Allen, both of them black. bottom of this yet, but my attributing her feat to A adrenaline. (Thanks Rapoport said Glory Road interim judgment is: (1) This to journalist “distorts the facts.” Bill Mayer of sure sounds like an urban legend. (2) But maybe it’s not. I just got off the phone Mariana Minaya Kansas’s Lawrence Journal- with a woman who lifted, if not an entire for providing the Hoop-de-do World recalled black-dominated car, at least a nontrivial fraction of the AP story.) San Francisco (Bill Russell, K.C. weight of one off her trapped son. Some may The parents of John Egan have a Jones, Hal Perry) winning two The woman’s name is Angela Cavallo, quibble that lift- lot to answer for. Because they straight national titles in the and she still lives in Lawrenceville, ing a car a couple inches is hardly arranged for him to be born mid-50s and dismissed the Georgia, where the incident happened on April 9, 1982. (An Associated Press the same as picking white, the national-champion movie as “baloney.” Let’s be fair. account didn’t appear till April 14, but it up. A doctor friend Loyola Ramblers basketball Glory Road is a truthy classic. Angela remembers the date because it says an adrenaline team of 1963 didn’t field an was Good Friday.) Her then-teenage son rush (norepineph- entirely black starting lineup and Tony had a 1964 Chevy Impala jacked up rine rush, whatever) wouldn’t last five min- UG SIGNORINO in the driveway—he’d removed a rear tire SL therefore aren’t the subject of the utes and suggests what and was working on the suspension. A new movie Glory Road, which Books Bind we’re seeing here wasn’t so much neighbor kid came to the kitchen door to instead recalls the 1966 Texas superhuman strength as endurance in the decreased in predictable fashion by a loud tell Angela there’d been an accident. She face of otherwise overwhelming pain. noise, by the subject’s own outcry, by cer- Western team, which did. On The Tribune’s books section car- rushed out to find Tony pinned under the Maybe; my point is, car-lifting stories have tain pharmacologic agents (alcohol, second thought, Loyola wouldn’t ried an announcement last car—something had been stuck and in try- a basis in fact. I’ve got a line on a couple adrenaline, and amphetamine), and by have interested Hollywood any- Sunday that as of January 22 it ing to loosen it he’d rocked the car off the similar tales but no details yet. In the hypnosis. Significant average changes jack. Now he was caught in one of the rear way. Texas Western defeated all- will become a tabloid. The meantime, a few other tidbits: rangingfrom +26.5% to -31% were wheel wells; she could see of him only white Kentucky in the NCAA unstated reason is to save money a Laurence Gonzales, in Deep Survival: observed.” The authors suggest that the finals, while Loyola vanquished by cutting the amount of from the waist down. Ancient Chevies Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why (2003), normal human inability to exert oneself to being big ol’ cars with a lot of room Cincinnati, which had three newsprint required to produce writes, “On Mother’s Day 1999, Saint John one’s physiological maximum is the result around the wheels, Tony wasn’t immedi- black starters of its own and—as the section. It’s one of only five Eberle and his partner, Marc Beverly, were of “acquired inhibitions that in turn are ately crushed. But he was out cold. climbing in New Mexico’s Sandia Mountain subject to disinhibition by pure Pavlovian the Sun-Times’s Ron Rapoport freestanding book sections in Hollering to the neighbor kid to get Wilderness when a rock weighing more procedures, by anesthetization of inhibito- pointed out in a January 12 col- American newspapers, and the help, Angela grabbed the side of the car than 500 pounds fell on Eberle, pinning ry mechanisms, or by pharmacologically umn—had won the NCAA cham- Tribune, with a well-deserved with both hands and pulled up with all her him.
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