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...latest chapter in the life of PATTY HEARST, she's a novelist. Murder at San Simeon, written with fellow rebel blue blood Cordelia Frances Biddle, is the story of a death on the property of granddad William Randolph Hearst. "My parents never talked about him," says the novelist. "Except that he liked animals and Citizen Kane wasn't about him." Meanwhile, F. Lee Bailey, who defended Patty--a.k.a. terrorist Tania--in the 1970s, has his own book idea. According to Variety, it will feature O.J. Simpson and Hearst, who he says breached attorney-client privilege by badmouthing...
...VOLUMES VOLUME II, CHAPTER 1. IN WHICH OUR SOMETIMES ERRATIC HERO PLANS A CONVENTION AT WHICH HE WILL BE ANOINTED LEADER OF THE PARTY WHICH HE HIMSELF PAID TO BE FORMED...
...restaurant, which used to attract such luminaries as former Harvard president Derek C. Bok and, years ago, John F. Kennedy '40, had filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 in early...
...senior management had spent Wednesday celebrating in London. They had just announced a booming quarterly earnings report, increasing revenues more than 12% to almost $1 billion, including a nearly fourfold jump in earnings to over $25 million. It was a miraculous return from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in just a year's time. After a private victory dinner with champagne, ceo Jeffrey Erickson and corporate communications V.P. Mark Abels left the party to go to bed at the Savoy Hotel; they were scheduled to fly home the next day to TWA headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. Then the phone call came...
...quote: John F. Kennedy was "one of the great [extremely vulgar synonym for ladies' man] of all time. Except for me") until the famously volatile comedian blew up at a semitough question about The Day the Clown Cried, his unfinished 1972 film drama about the Holocaust. (Disclosure: Levy's chapter on the making of The Day the Clown Cried relies heavily--and with due credit--on a magazine article I wrote on the subject for Spy.) Levy certainly doesn't shy away from psychobiography: Lewis' demanding though mostly absent parents, who toiled with marginal success on the vaudeville and burlesque...