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Contemplating his own life in Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me (Random House; 568 pages; $25), Marlon Brando, aided by journalist Robert Lindsey, strikes a pose of injured innocence: he is a sweet-spirited, mischievous man- child who accidentally fell first into acting, then into fame and finally into self-contempt, and at 70 remains "an enigma to myself in a world that still bewilders me." That observation pretty well sums up the level of self- awareness (and self-revelation) he achieves in his book...
...today," he says, "is that they have no idea what it was like before the revolution." His wife Maria Luisa Vina Alonso, 67, nods solemnly. Before 1959 they were members of what Maria calls the petite bourgeoisie, but then Baldomero's revolutionary fervor turned him into a party-line journalist. They worked all over the country and even abroad, spreading Castro's word in receptive capitals like Santiago and Mexico City...
...days later, at a railway station in Bremen, a 34-year-old German man was arrested trying to peddle a sample of plutonium to a journalist acting for the police. The seller had only a very tiny amount, .05 gram, but of such startling purity that experts said it probably came from a top-of-the-line Russian nuclear laboratory. Senior officials in Moscow reacted defensively, insisting that all their plutonium was accounted for and safely under guard. The accusation from Germany, blustered Deputy Atomic Energy Minister Yevgeni Mikenin, "is a provocation of the purest water...
...controversial lawsuit considered a precursor of possible applications of libel law in electronic journalism was settled early this week, and Netheads used to a free-flowing exchange of information are bracing for a chill. Brock N. Meeks, a Virginia journalist and the best-known electronic chronicler of happenings on the Internet, has agreed to pay Ohio direct marketer Benjamin D. Suarez $64 in court costs -- and to notify Suarez at least 48 hours before Meeks pens any stories about the businessman. Suarez had launched the lawsuit on March 22 after Meeks wrote in his Internet newsletter, Cyberwire Dispatch, that...
...seems, every journalist over 30 wants to mine that life for meaning. Or at least gossip. In Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Viking; $22.95), Paul Alexander, who has written books on Andy Warhol and Sylvia Plath, argues that Dean was a homosexual whose romances with starlets were so much unfelt publicity. Alexander scavenges for tatty, tattly tidbits, like the story about the night Dean and a pal picked up a one-legged girl at a bar and ... well, the curious may turn to page 203 for the punch line. And to page 286 for a photograph of a naked young...