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...Although the cottages were filled in the summer months, the resort never came close to breaking even. Brando was driven to distraction by "middle-aged ladies from Peoria telling me, 'Mr. Brando, we loved you as Napoleon'-Napoleon, for Christ's sake -and asking for my autograph, while their husbands shove me against the wall to pose with the little lady." Admits Brando: "It was a bad idea, and it was badly managed. Why did I do it? Because I love having projects, even bad ones. I don't want to sit on an island like...
...First Lady, spent three days at the family's Hyde Park home and read more than two dozen books on her subject. "I wish that a great deal of her graciousness and loveliness would rub off on me," says Eileen. Something has. "I recently gave an autograph," she recalls, "and, my God, I signed 'Elea' before I realized what I was doing...
Foster had to adjust to another part of baseball, the multitude of fans and autograph seekers. "We have to try to set the best examples. Kids idolize us. We have to show that we're doing things we want to do. But the main thing is to maintain health and strength. We have a great chance of repeating...
...promotion road, it is mandatory madness. The latest issue of the American Booksellers Association Newsletter lists dozens of authors who are currently hopping-or dragging -from city to city to hustle their books. The stops include talk shows, newspaper interviews, luncheons and appearances in department stores to autograph hundreds of copies. "You find out just how many ways there are to spell Arlene," says Christopher Porterfield, co-author with Dick Cavett of Cavett...
...into an odyssey of bad food, jet lag, little sleep and the sort of snafus that used to be found in Olsen and Johnson movies. Peter Maas (King of the Gypsies) ran into a familiar problem when pushing an earlier book, Valachi Papers: he was on time for an autograph session but his books were not. A complaint to his publishers brought promises of action. Indeed, a stack of his books awaited him at other stops. Only later did Maas learn that it was the same stack of books that his publishers kept shipping one step ahead...