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...wears silk pajamas to work, gave a new definition to the word bunny and catered to a generation of American male sexual fantasies. And now he is, yes, 60. Last week Hugh Hefner celebrated his birthday at his $20 million Los Angeles mansion with 250 well-wishers, including his girlfriend of three years, Playboy Model Carrie Leigh, 22. Hefner, who spends his days working on an autobiography (with Yeager Co-Author Leo Janos), suffered a mild stroke 13 months ago, and he is taking care of himself a little more now. He has switched from Pepsi to Diet Pepsi, stashed...
Dylan Thomas lived 13 days past his 39th birthday and has been dead now for nearly 33 years. Yet the story of his spectacular rise and fall, recounted in several biographies, numerous memoirs and even a Broadway play that starred Alec Guinness, retains an eerie, timeless allure. Dylan's saga combines Orphic myth with cautionary tale. Depending on who does the reading, the hero was either an inspired, fragile bard who fell upon the thorns of life or an overpraised, cadging drunk who finally got what he had been asking for and deserved. Thomas' Collected Letters will fuel such disagreements...
...novel blends reverie with naked rage at conniving, screen-deep program executives who have displaced the medium's pioneers. Although some secondary characters and events are real, Wilk focuses on an imaginary comedian, Jody Cassel, natural star and born victim. At 21 she was a headliner; before her 30th birthday she had been forced into obscurity, leaving only the ghostly echo of her catchphrase laugh, "Wowoweeweewoh!" Her history is recalled through the reminiscences of onetime colleagues. Wilk is a cunning observer of show-business mores, and he knows as well as his heroine exactly how to time a laugh. There...
Reagan late last month declined the University's invitation to speak at its 350th birthday celebration, which is also the anniversary of higher education in America. The University earlier this year decided not to give honorary degrees to distinguished participants, after faculty members and alumni expressed their opposition to granting Reagan such an award...
...school. First, the medal was awarded without proper consultation with the committee in charge of the awards. Then, recoiling from the barrage of criticism, a K-School spokesman proposed that the medal be regarded as a "party-favor," a kind-of door prize for attending the K-School's birthday party. But most clearly, the medal was awarded with little or no thought about the merit of the recipient. Indeed this honor seems an egregious, blatant example of tawdry pandering to national politicians. And the person to blame is Allison, a special Department of Defense consultant, who, it seems, wanted...