Word: nicholson
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...Nicholson Baker's The Everlasting Story of Nory (Random House; 226 pages; $22) gets anywhere near a best-seller list, it will have something to do with the everlasting story of Monica, which by now would have been remaindered were it not for the everlasting investigation of Kenneth. Vox, Baker's 1992 best seller about phone sex, was rumored to have been a gift by Lewinsky to the President. Starr's effort to subpoena Washington-bookstore records had predictable results: the public was offended, and sales of Baker's alleged fly opener rose...
Anyone who thinks romantic comedies are formulaic hokum is probably all too easily proved right. But every once in a while, a gem comes along to silence the cynics. Director James L. Brooks has crafted a warmhearted modern fable with a prickly sense of humor. Jack Nicholson plays an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon named Melvin Udall, whose isolated life is complicated by developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter who lives in the apartment next door and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress who serves him lunch every day. The film's genuinely funny, moving script will make the audience...
...investigators have been working to find outside corroboration for every possible aspect of her story. Since Lewinsky told Tripp that she'd bought certain gifts for Clinton, Starr issued a subpoena in March to a Washington bookstore; its sales records show that Lewinsky purchased a copy of Vox, Nicholson Baker's postmodern novel about yuppie phone sex. To Starr the move was routine evidence gathering, the authentication of a small detail in Lewinsky's story. But the subpoena caused an uproar among booksellers and free-speech groups. Author Baker charged that Starr was "undermining the Constitution" and demanded that...
...NICHOLSON BAKER His novel Vox appears in a Starr subpoena. So there is a future in being a literary mid-list writer...
...Kramerbooks & Afterwords, a Washington bookstore, is going to court to fight a subpoena issued by Starr for records of books Lewinsky purchased there -- which, the Washington Post says, include Nicholson Baker?s steamy classic, ?Vox.? Starr is well within his rights, but the first whiff of a First Amendment battle is likely to erode what little public support the prosecutor still has. ?Ken Starr seems to give little heed to the basic right of all Americans to read what they want, free from government surveillance,? says Steven Shapiro, legal director of the ACLU. It?s a powerful argument -- and with...