Word: authorization
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...many U.S. skeptics who doubt that glasnost and perestroika are sincere and enduring, the welcome this blunt depiction of history received in Moscow is bound to be reassuring. Says its author: "The most important question now is what legacy we are rejecting. This play is a firm rejection of Stalinism." It is also a poignant and at times eerily apt echo of the present -- as when Lenin and his colleagues sadly conclude that the apparent Communist revolution in Germany, where Marx expected his workers' revolt to start, is instead a brief outpouring of rage and envy from a still conservative...
Some aficionados are concerned that the search for exotic breads may be getting out of hand. Says Bernard Clayton, author of The New Complete Book of Breads: "Thank goodness there are good breads today, but there are some things out there that are horrifying." An understandable sentiment, given the emergence of such bizarre products as seaweed bread, cottage-cheese dill loaves and a cherry-chocolate concoction that sells for a thumping $10 a loaf...
GARBO TALKED! The death of the legendary film actress will bring to life a secret biography, based on rare interviews, that spent the past 14 years locked in a vault. Next month Simon & Schuster will publish Garbo, by the author Antoni Gronowicz, a longtime friend, who died five years ago. Withheld while Garbo was alive, it contains reminiscences about her childhood in Sweden and her relationships with mentor Mauritz Stiller, conductor Leopold Stokowski and others. In it, Garbo reflects on the tales that "women chased her more often and more persistently" than men. Another associate, film scholar Raymond Daum...
...perfect day for bananafish, but inclement for scholars and publishers. On Jan. 29, 1987, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York City, ruled that the reclusive author J.D. Salinger could prevent quotation of his unpublished letters by a biographer. The decision (which the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review) went further. The biographer, Ian Hamilton, could not even describe the correspondence in such a way that it caught the spirit of Salinger's writing. Hamilton found himself, in the words of the court, with "no inherent right to copy the 'accuracy' or the 'vividness...
Similar pitfalls await other writers and publishers who help themselves to unpublished sources. This month St. Martin's Press recalled reviewers' galleys of Saul Bellow: A Biography of the Imagination after Bellow objected to portions that were partly based on his letters, including some he wrote to author Ruth Miller. "I'm having a little trouble with that one," the Nobel laureate told the Chicago Tribune, referring to the book. So is Miller, a friend of the novelist for more than 50 years...