This is simultaneously one of the best and worst things about live stand-up comedy, depending on your propensity for schadenfreude. ![]() Nothing incites more painful cringing than watching someone really go out on a limb, make four times the required effort and fail miserably. Part lecturer, part literary stand-up comic, Morrow's a star on the tea-sandwich circuit. Morrow admits that what she does is "purely for entertainment." But along with relating juicy facts about her subject, she's known to delve into the psychological profiles of the rich and famous. Her audience isn't expected to read the book or discuss it. She's packed the house at Highland Park United Methodist's popular speakers' series and now is busy all over Dallas (and as far away as Wyoming) presenting her new take on the biography Chanel: A Woman of Her Own (in the past she's done books on the scandal-ridden Gucci and Vanderbilt families). Lurline Morrow, currently one of the most in-demand and most entertaining among the area's 40 to 50 professional reviewers, has been booked to do her one-woman/one-book act. At churches, country clubs and women's luncheon groups, the book reviewers bring their tomes alive. Not the ones who read a new best-seller and type 500 words of yay or nay. Davis pays attention to the minutiae of city affairs, while turning his sharp gaze north of the Trinity.ĭallas supports a strange and wonderful little industry of professional book reviewers. ![]() He loathes the smarmy leadership of city council member Leo Chaney while being equally dismissive of the Dallas Police Department's recent assertion that a hip-hop song led to a shooting death. His blog,, gives readers a snapshot into his progressive world view. He's also helped wage a successful fight to close down a notorious hot sheet motel in Fair Park. He's been active campaigning against southern Dallas' tired political guard, arguing in favor of new, reform-minded leadership. A smart blogger whose reporting on city events is often a step or two ahead of the lumbering Dallas Morning News, Davis is more than just a critic. Although he would hate to be referred to as the conscience of southern Dallas, Michael Davis has claimed the holy ground between the unethical and hapless political leadership of the southern sector and their bigoted and hypocritical detractors.
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