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...candid, purposeless admission that like other humans, he harbors lustful thoughts. With that, the Democratic nominee opened himself to titillating ridicule, bluenose outrage and serious questions about his judgment: should a presidential candidate choose a public forum where he will share attention with busty "Miss November" and a blurb heralding "Much More Sex in Cinema"? The cover promotion for the Carter story: "Now, the Real Jimmy Carter on Politics, Religion, the Press and Sex in an Incredible Playboy Interview...
...said that the pursuit of fiction is the question of what is original. Kosinski said he had once written a blurb for one of his books that later turned up as a blurb for an unrelated movie. He called the offending parties to sue, but was told that the expense involved was not worth his time...
...attended a Hollywood cocktail party where he was accosted by a successful screenwriter who knew his work and was invited to the man's home. There the screenwriter showed him file boxes of scenes, all purloined from different books. Kosinski had met the man who had stolen his blurb...
...Ehrlichman? Well, the book cover blurb says that he wrote The Company "in an old adobe house in Sante Fe, New Mexico...
...Photographs are contemporary to the point of being already dated, and photographic to the extreme of gimmickiness. Though the Special Exhibition of American Art on the ground floor of the Fogg "illustrates in several ways the changes in American art during the course of the 19th century," as the blurb has it, the changes, the paintings (and the "period" for that matter) are boring...