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...News correspondent Barbara Walters received the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at the Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum last night...
...What subject is so vital that BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD and TAMA JANOWITZ both want to hold forth on it? The future of Diana, Princess of Wales, naturally. Romance Classics, a new TV channel, gathered (clockwise from top left) JACKIE COLLINS, Bradford, ERICA JONG, JOAN RIVERS, NANCY FRIDAY, Janowitz, OLIVIA GOLDSMITH and RONA JAFFE to plot a sequel to the sensational epic that has been Diana's first marriage. Suggestions included Diana's having her own talk show ("A listening show," said Goldsmith, who would also like to see Diana in a follow-up to The First Wives Club--she wrote...
...President to do what is right. You can make wrong decisions as long as they are for the right reasons. And keep listening to the voters. Even a big mandate is only good as long as it lasts, and mandates don't usually last long--generally two months. OLIVIA GOLDSMITH Author, The First Wives Club...
...talking about betrayal," says First Wives author Olivia Goldsmith, who was herself downsized by divorce. "These guys are stealing not only the present but also the past. And after they steal part of your life, then they steal your property." After Goldsmith wrote the best-selling novel in 1992, her publisher sponsored a First Wife contest. "We received 1,500 letters, and they were tragic," she says. "I had never been so depressed." (The winning entry was like so many others: a husband runs off with his secretary after 23 years of marriage, leaving the wife to cope with...
...film has woman-to-woman origins, though it ended up in the guiding hands of men. Paramount chairman Sherry Lansing bought the rights to the Olivia Goldsmith novel when it was still just an idea and Lansing was still a producer. After she took over the studio, she handed the project to the prolific Scott Rudin (who produced Clueless and The Firm), who in turn hired Steel Magnolias screenwriter Robert Harling. Admittedly not a woman, Harling says he did bring some personal insight to the first-wife mind-set. "They tell you to write what you know," he says...