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...Natural Blonde (Hyperion; 460 pages; $25.95), for all its starstruck reminiscences (lunch with Richard Burton! Sean Connery in the buff!), promised headline-making dish that had publishing circles abuzz last week about the top-secret book. The 77-year-old gossip queen, the woman who broke the story of Donald and Ivana Trump's marital woes, was going to out herself...
...general return that call fast. "I disagree with your premise," Powell said. "It wasn't, 'Here's Colin! Here's Condi [Condoleeza Rice, Bush's black female national security expert]! Now vote Republican.'" Monday night, Powell had been abuzz with postspeech spin, bounding to interviews with anchors at CNN, BET, PBS and ending up on Larry King Live at midnight. The next day he made the rounds of the network morning shows. He concedes he couldn't say all he wanted (he had to cut his speech to meet that 11 p.m. deadline) but saw his moment in the spotlight...
...tough part is rating the experts' answers, as all but Abuzz and Askanexpert encourage. After all, how could I know if the guy who recommended a couple of camping spots in upstate New York was out to lunch until I did a little more research on my own? Knowpost raises the stakes even higher by making you answer a question before you can ask one. When I gave a lazy but technically correct answer to a guy who wanted to know what applications were available for a two-way pager, he slapped me with one star out of five...
...Askme.com in March) for a creative alternative to chocolate-chip cookies, she suggested putting chow-mein noodles in the mix. Ick! My most pressing question, about how to revive a wilting African violet before it went to plant heaven, got no responses, even though I posted it on Abuzz, Xpertsite and Expertcentral. Queries to Knowpost on the number of states that do not have a death penalty (12 plus the District of Columbia) and the best sleeping position to avoid back pain (on your back with knees bent) got helpful replies within hours...
...After we wrapped for the night, StrangeBrew was abuzz with people and various campaign supporters. Bradley's issue director approached us, announced he was from Yale and walked off. The stress of the two live shows was over, television executives and the Newsweek clan gathered in booths along the back of the bar. Everything was charged to the "Hardball" account, and we were left to mingle with people who were once only bylines. After Howard Fineman scoffed at my Boston roots ("Why go to Harvard?") and lectured on the merits of journalism and the lack of credibility of Cornell West...