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...relentless effort to track down the elusive "mystery mailer," a reporter conducted a phone interview with Hildegarde S. Freedman, who runs an introduction service for "distinguished intellectuals and professionals." The conversation was suddenly interrupted by the sound of a phone ringing. A metallic voice could be heard saying the words, "white male, 21, North House...
...direct mailer can then aim a solicitation at a letter box with a precision bordering on the scientific. While some people find the attention flattering, others consider it insidious. "There's something kind of creepy about companies knowing more about you than your own family, and compiling and trading information about you behind your back," says Robert Ellis Smith, editor of the watchdog newsletter Privacy Journal. Direct marketers strongly deny that they are intruders. "Nobody wants dossiers compiled about them," says Michael Manzari, president of Kleid Co., a New York City concern that brokers and manages lists...
...journalistic books. "I'll get a chance to repeat the kind of thing I did at the Sunday Times," he says. But within hours of being appointed, he was on the phone with some of Random House's top fiction authors -- among them E.L. Doctorow, William Styron and Norman Mailer -- to reassure them of his "passionate interest" in their work. He was calling other authors as well, in an effort to woo them to Random House. "He has a huge amount of personal prestige in the publishing and writing community," says literary agent Mort Janklow. "He will attract writers...
...Faulkner (1939 and 1964), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1968 and 1974) and John Updike (1968 and 1982). Eugene O'Neill appeared four times (1924, 1928, 1931 and 1946). Other writers include Russell Baker, John Cheever, Noel Coward, Graham Greene, Alex Haley, John Irving, Jean Kerr, Stephen King, John le Carre, Norman Mailer, Mario Puzo, J.D. Salinger, Neil Simon, Gore Vidal, Rebecca West, Tennessee Williams and Herman Wouk...
...tabloid headlines of the '70s and '80s -- who could have met nowhere in the world but on a John Waters set. Surfside heartthrob Troy Donahue. Media minx Joey Heatherton. Ever fashionable Polly Bergen. Andy Warhol icon Joe Dallesandro. Punk pioneer Iggy Pop. Legendary bad actress Susan Tyrrell. Norman Mailer's son Stephen. As a smarmily sadistic guard, Willem Dafoe. The parents of slutty Wanda (Traci Lords) are assayed by Ozzie and Harriet's own David Nelson and, in her movie debut, Patricia Hearst. The mind wanders: Is this the first time in Hollywood history that a famous abducted heiress...