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Michael Levine, Heston's publicist, believes the actor's outspokenness has damaged his career. "There's a reverse blacklist," he says. "It is far better in Hollywood to admit you're a drug addict than a conservative." But Heston, having just wrapped his 75th film, Gideon's Webb, shrugs off the concern. "People in the film community think being politically active means getting on Air Force One and going to dinner at the White House," he says. "I've scorned a few liberals in this town, and I get a kick out of that." Only six weeks ago, he called...
...realm where American art gave up its spiritual reach in exchange for the bounty of commerce. Warhol, more than any of his peers, was its avatar, its passive-aggressive emperor with a tapioca complexion and a pale wig, gliding through its landscape as prankster and publicist, pariah, sexual cipher, parvenu...
...expanding nationally. For those without time to shop, personal chefs who cook and run are springing into action to save us from a hot stove. "When I come home, I realize we have nothing for dinner, and I don't feel like cooking," says Lisa Bradlow, 33, a publicist in New York City. "It's easier to buy a roast chicken and pop it into the oven. If my husband and I have three home-cooked meals in a row, we congratulate ourselves...
...animated it is; unlike most movie stars, then, he is better looking in person than onscreen (in another movie era, he could have been a male ingenue, another Ronald Reagan). Put him in front of a camera, though, and his engine starts to hum. During a photo session, his publicist takes him aside and asks him to resist the urge to strike zany poses now that he is promoting a movie without any fart jokes...
...exceedingly normal yet extraordinarily courageous and strong characters who populate the works of Anne Tyler; a modern day tragic hero whose Achilles' heel and fatal flaw is a penchant for liquor. Lou Sloane's abrupt and cruel parting from Billie rouses Hex from his lackadaisical work as a publicist. Hex is the only other person who can interpret his mother's "syllabic puree;" he knows that Lou has stuck him 'with her, yet he gradually comes to accept and even relish the challenge of caring...