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SUSPENDED. RICK BRAGG, 43, Pulitzer prizewinning, Alabama-born reporter for the New York Times; after his editors discovered that he used uncredited material from a freelance reporter in a story about oystermen in Apalachicola, Fla.; reportedly for two weeks; in New York City. The move followed the resignation of another Times reporter, Jayson Blair, after the discovery of numerous mistakes and fabrications in his stories...
...remember talking to him about the movie Sling Blade and Billy Bob Thornton, whom he knew from Arkansas. He said to me there are two guys who understand this movie--him and Howell Raines [Alabama-born, editorial-page editor of the New York Times], who was blasting him all the time. And I called Howell Raines, and he said that yes, he did love the movie. So the critic in Clinton, even though he's getting pummeled every day, still had enough savvy to understand Raines' taste, and how this film related to Southerners. He's the most intelligent person...
Chinks appeared in the White Knight's armor. McGuane and Crockett were divorced, and a nine-month marriage to actress Margot Kidder (Superman) came and went. In 1977 McGuane took a third trip to the altar, with Alabama-born Laurie Buffet, who is the sister of his friend country singer Jimmy Buffet. McGuane's reputation bottomed out in 1978 when he received a critical licking for Panama, a caustically humorous novel that limned the dark side of fame. The same year, actress Elizabeth Ashley threw fat on the media fire by sparing few details of her romance with McGuane...
Story ideas often lead Jaynes down a circuitous path. "I may go into a town to write about a mean billy goat in someone's yard," he says, "and end up writing about an old goat at town hall." Such reflections come naturally to the Alabama-born Jaynes, who remains very much the Southerner. Yet his patchwork-quilt collection of pieces covers every section of the nation. Among the subjects that have piqued his interest are the loon preservationists in New Hampshire, a restaurant in Barrow, Alaska, that is the only place to find Mexican food in the Arctic Circle...
Another entry in the Carter social steeplechase is Alabama-born Yolande Fox, 44. She is a former Miss America (1951), the widow of a film executive who died 13 years ago and a constant companion of Cherif Guellal, the former Algerian ambassador to the U.S. Her first effort at entertaining for the Carter circle was a dinner for Andrew Young, Carter's U.N. ambassador. Yolande owns three houses in Georgetown: the 18-room digs she occupies with Guellal; a second home, now rented by LaBelle and Bert Lance, director of Carter's Office of Management and Budget...