But, at its heart, this is a silly, charming story about growing up. “Holy Cow” lightly touches on big ideas such as religion and tolerance. except it doesn’t end with someone punching the hanging carcass of a cow.” “Think of this (screenplay alert!) as the ‘Feeling Strong Now’ montage from Rocky,” she says, “. . . Perhaps the funniest depicts Elsie and her pals practicing walking on two legs. Parts of the novel are written like a screenplay (the author says he first pitched the story, unsuccessfully, to Disney and Pixar), and its illustrations, by Natalya Balnova, are a cross between the work of Gary Larson and Roz Chast. “She says producers like to think everything is their idea. Early in the book, for instance, Elsie tells us that her editor has warned against suggesting who should play her in a movie. (Arnold Turner/Invision/AP)ĭuchovny, who earned a master’s degree in English literature from Yale, is a witty writer, and he’s especially good at conjuring these oddball voices. “You humans are funny,” Elsie points out while pondering the idea of reduced fat milk in her Turkish coffee, “constantly thinking about eating and trying to look like you never eat at the same time.” Also, the pig gets circumcised.ĭavid Duchovny arrives at the NBCUniversal Golden Globes afterparty at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, Jan.
Along the way, they get into a few spectacular messes, learn a lot about themselves and each other, and score a few excellent zingers at us all. Their journey is amusingly botched as they head to Turkey, where they steal a jet and fly to Israel and then India. So, off the three go to save their hides. So he wants to go to, you guessed it, Turkey.
November, a bad month for his kind in this country, is just around the corner. “I’d be a god and he’d be a devil,” Elsie says, “and we both would live.” Finally, Tom, a smooth-talking turkey, joins the duo.
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Later, the TV program mentions India, where cows are sacred and “no one eats them.” Elsie decides to go there, and Jerry, a pig who converts to Judaism, insists on tagging along. “I emptied the contents of all four of my stomachs.” Through an open window, she catches a horrifying glimpse of a TV program showing cows being slaughtered at an industrial farm. One night, the two sneak out to meet the fellas in person, but Elsie wanders off to the farmer’s house. Elsie spends her days getting milked, grazing and daydreaming with her “bff” Mallory about the bulls on the other side of the fence. “Holy Cow” is narrated by Elsie Bovary, a chatty, plucky dairy cow from a small farm in upstate New York. His zany, madcap first novel, “ Holy Cow,” which follows the publication last year of “X-Files” co-star Gillian Anderson’s first novel, is a seriously entertaining fable that doesn’t take itself too seriously. (It’s a little louder when that celebrity is James Franco.) But David Duchovny, best known for his work on “The X-Files” and “Californication,” won’t suffer a hatchet job here. Whenever a Hollywood celebrity publishes a novel, listen closely: You’ll hear book critics everywhere sharpening their knives.
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