Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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This dog-wagging tale is told by most publishers. Jack Artenstein, publisher of juvenile books and adult paperbacks at Simon & Schuster, finds that "the children's book business is stronger this year than any other year I've seen. The first half of the year juvenile hard-covers were up 8% and juvenile paperback sales...
BORN. To Lucie Désirée Arnaz, 29, actress (Broadway's They're Playing Our Song) and daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and her husband of six months, Actor Laurence Luckinbill, 46: a son, her first, his third; in Los Angeles. Name: Simon Thomas. Weight...
...certain. "People have been floating too many rumors; we don't know how accurate they are, and I don't think anyone else does." He has watched the Republican team float names just to see how much opposition they generate. The process has claimed some victims. William Simon thought himself a shoo-in to be Reagan's Secretary of the Treasury. Then, after being subjected to what he calls "an overt hatchet job," including leaks about his unpopularity with some Senate Republicans, Simon withdrew, pleading personal reasons. But he is bitter, and includes "the nosiness and bias...
...great deal of cant surrounds the subject. In Washington, some of the most pious public denunciations of leaks come from those most artful at them. As an old Washington hand, Simon recognizes that "the ship of state is a unique vessel-it leaks from the top." Editors, in their eager appetite for both facts and scoops, can be awfully moral about protecting their sources, while in reality being very practical about not shutting off the flow. Journalists usually look to the validity of the information they are offered, and to its verifiability, more than to the motives of those...
...Harmony (Sesame Street/Warner Bros.). Various pop stars make the playroom rock, gently of course. The idea -a good one-was to gather some songs for kids and about kids that wouldn't reduce Mom and Dad to a gibbering frenzy. Producers Lucy Simon and David Levine recruited talent as diverse as Bette Midler, James Taylor, the Doobie Brothers, Linda Ronstadt, Lindy Waldman and Carly Simon (the co-producer's sister), and let them loose in the realms of whimsy. The results-especially by Taylor, Midler, and Dr. John in a duet with Libby Titus-are easy to take...