Bedtime Story of the Week

Bedtime Story of the Week: Strip Tease

Ed Asner, famous as TV's Lou Grant, reads the taped-book version of the current Demi Moore vehicle (Random House AudioBooks, $18). Hey, anything that'll let us skip the movie.

Bons Mots of the Week: Taxi Driver Wisdom

''The traffic — it slows, it speeds up again for no reason sometimes,'' muses one driver in Risa Mickenberg's collection of cabbie aphorisms (Chronicle Books, $14.95). Guess having a checkered past can make you pretty pithy.