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...urge to make an impression on the public consciousness does not combine easily with the desire to go through life unnoticed. Witness the besieged reclusiveness of Greta Garbo, J.D. Salinger and the late Howard Hughes. They all made the same mistake: trying to change the rules of celebrityhood after they had become household faces. Author Thomas Pynchon, 46, apparently anticipated this problem during his adolescence. The only photograph of him to surface publicly shows a typical American teen-age male circa mid-1950s: crew cut, protuberant ears and a sleepy stare. Since then, nothing, not even a forwarding address; rumor...
...reclusive as Garbo or J.D. Salinger. Paul Lutus, 38, lived in a cabin high on Oregon's Eight Dollar Mountain when he wrote Apple Writer, an early word-processing program. Lutus, the author of several other bestsellers, was forced to rig up a 1,200-ft. extension cord in order to get enough power for his Apple computer...
WHEN SWINGTIME SWEETIE Billy Crocker sings the praises of nightclub knockout Reno Sweeney, he lovingly croons "You're the National Gallery, you're Garbo's salary, you're Chippendale." Not to be outdone, Reno hails Billy as equal in stature to a silver dollar, an Arrow collar--even "cellophane...
...such standards as Dancing in the Dark, You and the Night and the Music and Louisiana Hayride; of Parkinson's disease; in New York City. A public relations executive who invented Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Leo the Lion trademark and is said to have coined Greta Garbo's line "I want to be alone," Dietz was amazingly prolific (more than 500 songs) and quick, whipping up That's Entertainment in 30 minutes with his longtime collaborator Arthur Schwartz. One of show business's genuine Renaissance men, Dietz translated the librettos...
...Guns of Navarone and Separate Tables, in which he gave a 1958 Oscar-winning portrayal of a pathetic military impostor. His candid, bestselling memoirs (The Moon's a Balloon, Bring on the Empty Horses) abound with lightly told anecdotes of Errol Flynn's drunken revels and Greta Garbo's nude swims. Niven once described Hollywood as a "hotbed of false values. . . but it was fascinating, and if you were lucky...