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...novels of Mickey Spillane read like the collected works of John Ruskin. He turns out his books at the rate of 10,000 dictated words per day-just like Erie Stanley Gardner-and markets the finished products under a variety of exotic pseudonyms (like O.R. Gann, "a leading authoress," or "the struggling Nigerian author, S. Odomy"). He also adopts a zealously sleazy lifestyle and a cheap line of patter to fit his chosen profession. No sooner has Mickey polished off his newest thriller, The Organ Grinder, than he is approached by an unlikely p.r. type named Ben Dinunccio (Lionel Stander...
...Agatha Christie didn't become the world's most popular authoress because of her intellectuality: her specialty is good clean death, and Ten Little Indians does fine in this department. The evening's mystery guest pulls off a couple of the smoothest on-stage poisonings I've ever not witnessed. While Christie may rub our noses in the paradoxes and devious clues she invents, she's a masterbuilder of tension and an incorrigibly clever murderess--which even her hum-drum sentimentality can't hide...
Richard L. Alfred '74--who filed suit last month for $400--claims that a salesman refused to sell him Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf when Alfred discovered three letters in the back of the book written by the authoress...
Well, for starters, there's money in it. Lyle Stuart has just published Liz Renay's memoirs, "My Face for the World to See," and Stuart has already promised his star fall property, authoress Renay, that with him behind her she's destined to outsell even his previous record-breaking bookends, "The Sensuous Man" and "The Sensuous Woman...
...much to my delight, she comes down hard on everything, including white liberals, the New York Post , the University of Miami, SNCC, the CIA, Dore Schary and Conrad Hilton. The play is not outwardly disturbing, and yet one cannot help but cringe a bit with every joke. The authoress holds out no hope for anyone, and I can't imagine how anyone could prove her wrong...