Here She Comes to Save the Day! Was This Man a Genius?, Julie Hecht’s relentless, obsessional portrait of Andy Kaufman gets “as close to answering the Kaufman question as any book, movie or REM song”, says the New York Times reviewer. I missed the whole Kaufman phenomenon since I never watched TV in those days and had a particular commitment to avoiding Saturday Night Live. I caught the Milos Forman film more recently on TV late one aimless, sleepless night, and it sounds like Hecht’s book gets at the same frustrating love-hate relationship Kaufman provoked according to the film — was he a genius? an obnoxious fool? or both? (Liked the REM song, though…)