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...real runners were at the Marathon, which pleased Joanne and me. You see, we have become some what of a spectacle along the River paths because we like to yell at each other over the din of our Walkman stereos (she has a tape player which is always blasting the Go Gos, and I have an FM model...
Margolis, an independent film producer and a former West Coast editor for Penthouse, has filed suit for damages, half the royalties and title credit on all future editions of the book. As he tells it, he and Kassorla went from bed to tape recorder, chatting up sexual bouts and working out a detailed, 90-page prospectus for a "revolutionary new book on sexual behavior." He says that 114 of the 229 pages of the bestseller are his. He also claims joint credit for most of the book's original ideas, including "Silence Isn't Golden" (lovers should constantly...
...some of his programs, like his campaign against waste and fraud, had been neglected by the press. Nonetheless, continued the President, he thought he had found a way to get such matters properly reported: "We'll call a secret meeting in the Oval Office of our inspectors general, tape-record the proceedings, stamp the transcripts 'top secret,' stuff them in a diplomatic pouch and accidentally leave them on Lou Grant's doorstep." Concluded Reagan: "A leaked secret they'll always...
...expensive competition, pulling in $8 million its first weekend. Next week moviegoers will be able to see yet another facet of Pryor when Some Kind of Hero opens. In it he plays the seriocomic role of a Viet Nam vet who tries to adjust to the apathy and red tape he finds back home...
...Garry Wills, in a piece for The New Republic prior to the publication of The Kennedy Imprisonment, observed that popular response to the tape revelation was surprisingly muted: there was almost no outcry at all. Kennedy taped because he was by nature a historian, some explained, not because he was paranoid or a sneak. What was a sin in someone else became a virtue in Kennedy. Exasperated at this double standard, Wills could only wonder it "the strange emotional investment that many people have in the Kennedy myth." Clearly, people do not like to be told that their super-heroes...