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...caught some flak for touring the Stenkovec camp in a chauffeured Audi, the Tinseltown-to-tent-city floodgates have clearly been opened: Vanessa Redgrave, Bianca Jagger, Roger Moore and former J. D. Salinger squeeze Joyce Maynard have all been there. Gwyneth Paltrow is mulling a visit, as are Christie Brinkley and hubby Peter Cook. From the Beltway, Hillary Clinton and Liddy Dole have pressed the flesh. And no less an assemblage than Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, Boyz II Men and Luciano Pavarotti is signed to do a benefit for the Kosovar kids in Munich in June...
Versace, Ray-Bans, Michael Milken, Duran Duran, Odeon, Christie Brinkley. Partying all night through downtown Manhattan's glam disco scene. Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll--and a guy who discovers that he really loved his mother too. If you can get past the notion that Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney's 1984 novel about a Manhattan yuppie on a downward spiral, is a time capsule whose time has passed, it's actually not a bad idea for a musical...
After the book was released, Martin was accusedof anti-Semitism in national media outletsincluding The New York Times and "This Week withDavid Brinkley...
...quite that simple. Traditionally, when celebrities endorsed products, their fame became slightly tarnished and therefore less valuable. Now, however, they just become more famous, and they get money to boot. (The only category of famous people of whom this is not yet true is journalists. David Brinkley took a big hit for becoming a spokesman for Archer Daniels Midland Co. But then pioneers often suffer when carving paths that soon become common and comfortable.) Similarly, rich folks who do ads buy themselves fame without spending their wealth. But most actual billionaires are probably as famous as they wish...
...Douglas Brinkley is author of American Heritage's History of the United States