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...Pulitzer-prizewinning author (The Executioner's Song) charged last week that two friends convicted on drug- smuggling charges were given heavier sentences to pressure them into implicating him. Mailer was a character witness in the 1983 trial of Writer Richard Stratton and the 1984 trial of Literary Agent Bernard ("Buzz") Farbar, but denies having been an accomplice. "I made no Fifth Amendment claim then, and I didn't need to," he says. Mailer spoke up after nine prominent writers, including William Styron and Nora Ephron, published a letter in the New York Review of Books charging that Farbar was denied...
What does Muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger like to do when he isn't terminating bad guys or zapping aliens? He goes to prison. To teach body- building classes to inmates, that is. The star of the sci-fi summer hit Predator caused more than the usual buzz of excitement during a recent visit to the high-security California Institute for Women in Frontera. "There was a large number of women who wanted to see him," reports Associate Superintendent Don Rasmussen. "Number one, because he's a man, and number two, because he's someone famous." Schwarzenegger spent two hours demonstrating various...
There are trends, all too easily discernible, in dinner conversations. The saga of domestic help is a persistent one -- pretty worked over by now. Real estate is an ongoing turnoff, but the new buzz is even more boring and more inescapable. It is traffic...
...years to mate and die. This year, as in previous appearances, their numbers are likely to reach into the millions to the acre. The greatest concentrations are expected in the suburbs of Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, where the days will be filled with a cacophony of ticks and buzzes that will wax and wane with the heat of the sun. A population in full song can exceed 100 decibels, roughly the level of a circular buzz saw at full throttle...
...that want to have their overproduced action sequences and devour them satirically too. But May is a writer of scripts that are all sneaky asides, no obvious zingers allowed. She is not one to let her voice be drowned out by either a lot of exploding hardware or the buzz about Ishtar's delays and cost overruns. One finally cannot resist warming to a movie in which people are astonished to find out that Gaddafi is the name of a man not a country but are strangely gratified to learn that vultures, like tyro songwriters, work "on spec." And that...