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...going to feed a writer, expect to get your hand bitten. It is the nature of the beast, as demonstrated with appropriate relish by John Gregory Dunne in Monster: Living Off the Big Screen (Random House; 203 pages; $21). Dunne is a journalist and novelist who, with his wife Joan Didion, another producer of stinging reportage and fiction, pays the family bills by writing movie scripts. Among those that made it to the cineplexes in one version or another are the Barbra Streisand remake of A Star Is Born and the Robert Redford-Michelle Pfeiffer showcase, Up Close and Personal...
...later an evangelist. But Chapin never abandoned show biz, acting in three Father Knows Best reunion specials, managing younger talents and judging beauty pageants. She is currently developing a TV series that takes a nostalgic look at the history of radio and television. The performing bug has also bitten Chapin's daughter Summer, 18. Says Chapin: "To see that she has a good handle on performing gives me a great deal of satisfaction, because I didn...
Contrary to popular belief in this country, the 1998 World Cup doesn't begin in Paris next June; it has already begun, and many fingernails will have been bitten twice and thrice over to the core around the world between now and the wrap-up of qualifying this December. And the United States faces a crucial series of games which begins on March 2 against Jamaica--no longer being the host nation, unlike last time, the U.S. must now struggle along with everyone else to earn a place on the world's grandest sporting stage...
...examination? Does a work so central to Western culture need a spotlight? Genesis is widely regarded as humanity's first, revolutionary statement of the notion that there is but one God, and no day passes when we do not touch upon its stories. Glancingly, as when we note the bitten-apple logo on our computer. Or deeply, as when we heed the words of Jesus, Luther or Freud, all of whom took up the great truths and agonizing questions set out by Hebrew scribes sometime between the 10th and 4th centuries before the advent of Christianity (and inspired...
...those like Dick Gephardt and Chris Dodd who would deny Gore that chance, "how Al does this time will shape the race for next time--and the same is so with Jack for the other side." Why? "Money, mostly." For at least the next two years every person bitten by the presidential bug will be scrambling for political and financial support. By doing well this year, Kemp and Gore could make that numbing job even tougher for their rivals...