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...first-round five-shot lead is about as safe as a San Francisco Giants five-game NL West lead in May...it's not. Bad shots often beget more bad shots, and seemingly safe margins of error can quickly dissipate as repeated psychological blows take their toll (Kinda like the Giants losing eight in a row in September...
Headlines trumpeting Perot's apparent popularity offset what is normally a huge liability for a little-known independent -- skepticism that he has any chance to win. In Perot's case, poll results feed on themselves. High ratings help beget higher ratings even while he remains an elusive figure who declines to state his views...
Gone With the Wind, book and movie, may be as close to a perpetual-motion machine as the entertainment business is likely to get. Margaret Mitchell's 1936 best seller and David O. Selznick's Technicolor extravaganza have sustained each other for more than 50 years. Readers beget viewers, and countless moviegoers have been seduced at the bookstore. All this adds up to 28 million copies sold and still counting. The 3 3/4-hour movie, owned by Ted Turner since he bought the MGM film library in 1985, has become the eternal flame of popular culture. It is a safe...
...where fine young actresses can do fine work. Just now that acreage is the property of Julia Roberts, currently starring in Sleeping with the Enemy. Her combination of girl-next-door beauty, canny vulnerability and great good fortune in roles quickly begat hit movies (Steel Magnolias, Pretty Woman), which beget a first look at the hottest scripts. Which means that every other young actress gets sloppy seconds. Says Carrie Fisher: "I wouldn't want to look over my shoulder at Julia Roberts." But some of Roberts' peers don't. They look harder for parts, look deeper into their talent, look...
Ephraim Gursky begins it all in the 19th century. The fugitive from Minsk becomes the thief of London and the prisoner of Newgate. Deported, he turns into the con man of the Klondike. This ultimate survivor begets 27 unacknowledged offspring, plus Aaron, who begets the predatory Bernard and the doomed and mysterious Solomon. The brothers beget a liquor business that makes them the intimates of gangsters during Prohibition and the cynosure of politicians ever after. Their descendants become various refractions of the founder: vulgar, sensitive, avaricious, undirected, lost...