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Though he maintains his role as a Pepperdine law professor, an author of 17 books and a contributor to Slate, The American Spectator and the Washington Post, the smartest man on basic cable is most animated when talking about Hollywood and its beautiful women. Perhaps Stein's oddest avocation is being a financial guru to hookers. "Aside from practicing pimps, nobody knows as many call girls as I do," he says. It began when Stein was a columnist for the Journal, spending his afternoons by the pool in his West Hollywood apartment building, which was populated by call girls...
...French, Dunn acknowledges, faced a broader revolutionary challenge than the Americans had a few years earlier. Wresting political autonomy from a power across an ocean was not the same as toppling a thousand-year-old home-grown feudal system. But, the author argues, the French could have learned one lesson from America and thereby avoided a bloody philosophical blunder. Instead of following the Founding Fathers' careful protections of individual liberties, the French made the unity of their people the highest goal. "Curiously," Dunn writes, "all the qualities that had traditionally been attributed to the quasi-divine king--oneness, indivisibility, infallibility...
DIED. DAISY TAN, 83, mother of author Amy Tan and the inspiration for The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife; in San Francisco. Tan left an abusive husband in Shanghai to come to America...
DIED. QUENTIN CRISP, 90, witty, flamboyantly effeminate author of The Naked Civil Servant; in Manchester, England. In his autobiography, famous for its lack of self-pity, the self-described "mother superior of homosexuality" chronicled youthful torment at the hands of homophobes (see Eulogy...
...choked, dreamscapey San Francisco, refugees from the author's novels Idoru and Virtual Light navigate the blurry boundary between terrestrial reality and cyberspace, meeting a new raft of 21st century weirdos as an ill-defined societal apocalypse nears. The ferociously talented Gibson (Neuromancer) delivers his signature melange of techno-pop splendor and postindustrial squalor, but this time his teasing, multicharacter narrative leads only to an irritating head scratcher of a conclusion. Genre freaks: this appears to complete the trilogy. Connoisseurs: just reread Neal Stephenson...