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...have met him. Because his success stems so much from his personality, the many articles that have appeared in the business and trade press have often seemed wanting. So too have television's occasional efforts to tell the Gates story focused predictably on canned vignettes and snippets of gossip...
...diaries make for somewhat melancholy reading in their second half, it's only because California, famously narcotic, began to sap his energy and sharpness. More and more of his entries dwindle into local gossip and silly worries about his boyfriends and his weight. He was always better suited to being a camera than a mirror. Yet even at his weakest, he earns our trust with his entirely human cries of "God, make me pure--but not just...
While the phrase "That's so gay" seems to have permanently entered the (straight) teen vernacular, at many schools it is now profoundly uncool to be seen as anti-gay. Straight kids meet and gossip and find hookups on websites like facebook.com where a routine question is whether they like guys or girls or both. When Savin-Williams surveyed 180 young men ages 14 to 25 for an earlier book, "... And Then I Became Gay," he found that nearly all had received positive, sometimes enthusiastic, responses when they first came out. (Many others are received with neutrality, even boredom: University...
...about being popular. What if none of the other moms talk to me during drop-off? Or ask me on any play dates? Suppose the PTA president asks me to spearhead the wrapping-paper fund-raising drive and, pleading work pressure, I turn her down, and she goes into gossip overdrive? Those Mean Girls we have heard so much about can grow into Mean Moms, you know...
...been for the past 11 years? It has been that long since he wrote Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which spent four of those years on best-seller lists. The answer, apparently, is Venice. That makes sense: Where else could Berendt find the mix of rich gossip and Gothic calamity that made his portrait of Savannah, Ga., so fascinating...