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Most books set in the TV-news industry are about the drama of a big story, the intrigue of an unfolding scandal or the power and glamour and sheer money associated with being a big-league anchor, interviewer or producer. In fiction and reality, TV executives often characterize themselves the way characters do in Jon Katz's roman a clef: as ranking among "the 25,000 most successful people in the world," right up there with generals, Senators, tycoons and Third World dictators. But here the big story and intrigue are inside TV itself -- the takeover of a network very...
Katharine Hepburn once remarked that the secret to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' success was that he gave her class while she gave him sex appeal. Hepburn's equation helps explain the long and awkward tango between Hollywood and Washington. To Washington, Hollywood offered glamour; to Hollywood, Washington provided substance, or at least the illusion...
...meantime, the Founding Fathers' favorite hairstyle had reappeared on the mainstream American fashion scene as a European import that went companionably with well-heeled 1980s glamour. Shampooed and conditioned, it no longer had the scruffiness of the hippie look, and instead was associated with Old World hipness. "It's safely deviant," explains Michael O'Loughlin, 31, an editor of the San Francisco Examiner, who recently cut off his 6-in. ponytail and got a longish crewcut...
Madonna has fascinated the academic community in recent months, particularly since the summertime release of the Dick Tracy movie, and her face has graced the cover of magazines as diverse as Glamour and The New Republic...
Where is that adorable little gap between her two front teeth? That's what the singer -- named one of Glamour magazine's 10 Women of the Year -- wondered when she saw her picture on the December cover. Turns out the photo was retouched. The subject remains touchy but has decided against legal action...