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...REASON SO MUCH OF The Brethren reads like a $13.95 edition of People Magazine is that the authors approached a potentially important project like autograph hounds at a Broadway opening, scrambling from the curb to the lobby in a frantic attempt to collect anything possibly significant. During a pre-Christmas Harvard appearance, the authors said a journalist's job was simply to find out and print whatever he could. "And let the chips fall where they may?" one questioner demanded. "Yeah," Woodward answered, leaning back in his chair. "You can't as a journalist sit there and say what...
...front of the hotel two autograph hounds attacked Arnold. The pair went to have tea, chatted about the Longinian ideal, the habit of greatness, idols--Arnold's idol in acting was Burt Reynolds. Arnold bantered with the waiters, it was always Arnold, not Arnold Schwarzenegger or Mr. Schwarzenegger or Mr. Arnold. That meant something to Hercules, it meant that Arnold was more than a weightlifter or an actor or a businessman or an author--Arnold was Arnold. Suddenly Hercules desperately wanted a pair of blue armadillo boots...
...sort of thing you expect by now in a Woody Allen flick. Allen is sitting in this restaurant in Manhattan, see, when up walks a kid with big eyes and braces who looks just like Allen might have at 13. "Hello," says the kid. "Can I have your autograph?" Allen writes, not his name, but a note: "Hi. I'm casting for my new major motion picture. Would you like to come for a screen test?" Naturally the kid passes the test, gets a part and grows up to become a big movie star. Except that Anthony DePaola...
...with me. Mom has watched all my lessons." So few mistakes were made that the youngest Austin has become the family's first big-time winner. Says Jeanne Austin: "People come up to John on the tour and say, 'We don't want your autograph, but could you forge Tracy...
Approach #2. The Duke Mantee Autograph Model Paranoid Approach. Recommended for the Shy, the Truly Paranoid, and the Easily Disgusted. Prerequisites: A nascent sense of misanthropy or the inability to deal with people whom you are convinced are either out to get you or trying to prove their superiority. This famous approach, also suggested for the disdainful, lets you waltz through Freshman Week as an observer. As a non-combatant, you get to watch everyone else have a real "good time" while you stand at the fringes, cringing or remaining aloof. Just remember to be aware of the distance...