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...profile by the standards of today's athletes. You didn't see him on too many national commercials. You didn't hear him make an album. You didn't see him joining the endless line of free-agent mercenaries that make ballclubs that much more removed from their fans...
...happening to us. When Michael delivers a manuscript, we are all struck by how much we are made to think, and how much information there is, and how well researched it is. I'm always learning something every time I work with Michael." Notes Lynn Nesbit, his longtime literary agent: "You can never predict with Michael, because his range of interests is so broad. You can't characterize him. He writes out of real passion about a subject that he's currently thinking about...
More fleshed out is the man she married and, after two children, divorced--a New York literary agent identified only as "B." Coming from a family of Jewish left-wing intellectuals, he was the perfect Lochinvar to take her out of Rhode Island but not to replace her sainted father. On one hand: "If it hadn't been for him, I thought, I would not have heard Montand sing Les Feuilles Mortes or read Mrs. Dalloway or tasted Brie or drunk any wine beyond sherry." On the other: "Lose one's temper or burst into tears, and he would...
Surrounded by his famous collection of time pieces, Judge Lance Ito is clearly impatient with the pace of the Simpson trial. In a serious setback for the defense, Ito ruled that he will not allow the testimony of disgruntled FBI agent Frederic Whitehurst. The decision also means that FBI toxicologist and former prosecution witness Roger Martz will not have to return to the stand. James Willwerth reports from the trial: "Ito ruled that it was not relevant for jurors to hear Whitehurst saying he believed that Martz had altered lab results in another case, testimony the defense hoped...
...Simpson prosecution may conclude its rebuttal with FBI agent William Bodziak, who is back on the stand talking about shoes. The defense spent the weekend interviewing FBI agent Frederic Whitehurst. Judge Ito must decide if Whitehurst's allegations -- that another FBI agent who worked on the Simpson investigation gave false testimony to benefit the prosecution -- are relevant enough to be presented to the jury. Defense attorneys also hope to present potentially damaging evidence about Detective Phillip Vannatter. They claim Vannatter told a witness in another case that he believed Simpson to be a suspect even before police entered Simpson...