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...Savannah these days, when people talk about "the Book," they are referring not to the Bible but to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, the best-selling suspense yarn by journalist John Berendt. The true account of a notorious 1981 Savannah homicide case, the book is now in its 46th printing and three weeks ago, passed the one-year mark on the New York Times' best-seller list. It has been translated into six languages, including Norwegian, is being developed as a movie by Warner Bros., and has sparked a tourist boom in the genteel town of Savannah...
...Berendt's book recounts the bizarre story of Jim Williams, a socially prominent antiques dealer who was tried four times for shooting and killing Danny Hansford, a Camaro-driving handyman and hustler. But the book is no typical true-crime thriller; it is as close to Paul Theroux as it is to Dominick Dunne. Populated by a townful of Southern Gothic characters, from patrician bon vivants like the polo-playing Harry Cram to Williams' canny, football-obsessed lawyer Sonny Seiler to local eccentrics like maid Gloria Daniels, who conducted tours of her employer's mansion, occasionally supplementing them with renditions...
...teachers planning school trips. But a more recent wave of visitors now seeks out such outre characters as drag queen Lady Chablis, flamboyant chanteuse Emma Kelly and the voodoo priestess Minerva. TIME staff writer Ginia Bellafante says it's all part of the mania inspired by journalist John Berendt's long-running true-crime bestseller, which just passed the one-year mark on The New York Times bestseller list. The book, now being developed as a movie by Warner Brothers, chronicles a notorious 1981 Savannah murder case. But, Bellafante says, its host of eccentric characters amounts to "an engaging portrait...
...first time anything like this has ever happened to any college humor magazine," added ex-Ibis John L. Berendt '61. With a circulation of almost 600,000 for the Mademoiselle issue, the Lampoon in she's clothing will be read by more people than any college magazine in history, and double the total number of people who have ever read the 'Poon, he predicted...
...makeup," Frith continued, "and they the models, clothes, and photographers--all facilities." The only restraining stipulation Mademoiselle has thus far imposed is that the Lampoon must use "real models and clothes that fit, in ads that are paid for." "But we can really mess around with the fake ads," Berendt said...