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...since James Baldwin has a black gay writer achieved the success of E. Lynn Harris. While exploring the boundaries and taboos of sexuality, Harris--who died on July 23 at 54--turned the black community and the literary world upside down, with 10 consecutive New York Times best sellers and more than 4 million copies of his work in print. Unlike Baldwin, Harris wrote for the masses, introducing readers to a fabulous world teeming with prosperous but morally conflicted black characters...
...only the beauty of childbirth. Until the placenta came out. There are many normal human reactions to seeing a placenta, ranging from screaming to vomiting to warding it off with a cross. For those of you who have never seen one, the placenta is to the baby what Stephen Baldwin is to Alec Baldwin. It's what your liver would look like if it got into an accident on the autobahn with one of those aliens from Mars Attacks! and their bloody carcasses threw jellyfish at each other...
...wasn't in his nature to promote his work. Harold just loved to talk to people. There was a warmth about him. Put him in a café with a cappuccino and he could talk for hours, telling stories of people like Jack Kerouac and James Baldwin. Who wouldn't want to listen...
...Baldwin, Paul •release from prison of after serving one-year term for stealing a can of beer is quickly followed by another arrest of - the 153rd - for assault...
...slated each Saturday, when Osborne and a year-long guest co-host movies from the collection in a series called The Essentials. So far his partners have been film historian and glamour gal Molly Haskell, writer-actress Carrie Fisher, actress Rose McGowen and multimedia bad-boy/cool-guy Alec Baldwin. The taping must be an ordeal for the guests - Molly told me that her 31 intros and wrapups were recorded in a day and a half - but it often provides surprising insights into the films...