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Books Fictional judge Rusty Sabich should know better. More than 20 years ago— as a lawyer in 1987’s Presumed Innocent—he had an extramarital af- fair and wound up on trial for murder. In Scott Turow’s high-wire sequel, Innocent, Rusty, now in his 60s, once again yields to the temptations of a beautiful colleague.
When Rusty’s wife,
Barbara, dies suddenly, the shadow
of suspicion engulfs
him once again.
Faster than you
can say “grudge
match,” prosecuting attorney Tommy
Molto returns to
face down his former adversary.
—Daniel Stashower
Second Bite
of the Apple
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Events
They’re ugly,
they’re delicious,
and you can eat
your fill of them
August 4 through 8 at the
Maine Lobster Festival in
Rockland. A $7 daily ticket
includes live entertainment,
a Maine Sea Goddess pageant,
a seafood-cooking contest,
local arts and crafts, and a
footrace across 50 partially
submerged lobster crates. For
a lobster dinner for two—that’s
two whole lobsters—you’ll
shell out just $26, the perfect
meal for a crustacean vacation
(207-596-0376; mainelobster
festival.com). —Gregory Pelkofski
Shell of a Time
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Joined by ten of the country’s
finest singers, Jimmy Webb
reprises some of his best-known work on Just Across
Webb Masters
Music the River. Vince Gill (“Oklaho-
ma Nights”), Lucinda Williams
(“Galveston”), and Billy Joel
(“Wichita Lineman”) shed
new light on the real lives and
wide-open spaces evoked by
this most timeless of American
songwriters. —Richard Gehr
Beaver’s Back!
DVDs
We all remember June
Cleaver’s ever-present pearl
necklace. At heart, though,
Leave It to Beaver was a
show about two broth-
ers: young Beaver (Jerry
Mathers) and teenaged
Wally (Tony Dow), told
with a uniquely kid’s-eye
view. The 37-disk, 234-
episode complete series is
on sale now, and Dow, 65,
recalls that the show’s two
writers, who had eight kids
between them, never went
for the cheap laugh. “We’d
have a script reading,” says
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Dow—who still sounds as
if he could exclaim, “Golly,
Beav!” any second—“and
if any line got too much of
a laugh, they’d take it out.
They didn’t want a big
laugh; they wanted chuck-
les. They wanted people
smiling throughout the
show.” —Bill Newcott
