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...Mark Helprin, novelist and occasional Dole speechwriter, maintains he's no babe magnet. That, however, hasn't stopped a love-hungry soul from posing as him in personal ads, according to the New York Observer. Helprin, who's married (and something of a practical joker), can't understand why he was chosen. "If he looks like me," he says, "I understand why he's having trouble...
...President's speechwriters were dumbstruck by the Bob Dole that emerged at the Republican Convention. Here was a man who had never in his life successfully mated subject to verb rolling out sonorous subclauses! When the speechwriters realized that the brilliant acceptance speech had been crafted by novelist Mark Helprin, an actual writer of poetical prose, they began to search their brains for suitable ghostwriters for Clinton: Stephen King, perhaps, on welfare reform, Michael Crichton to explain the health system...
...disillusionment overcame them. None of these classic guys, they realized, had ever written a convention speech before, and probably the whole lot of them working overtime couldn't put together a 30-second commercial if they tried. "Darn," said the President finally, "get me a real writer. Like that Helprin fellow, if he's still peddling paragraphs--or, hey, what about Peggy Noonan herself...
...MARK HELPRIN Novelist/Dole speechwriter huffy after candidate rejects four paragraphs for big speech...
...page didn't always work onstage. Dole never seemed to "own" the speech, didn't have it absorbed so deep it was bubbles in his blood. My guess is he never really liked it, but stuck with it because his previous collaboration with his speechwriter, the novelist Mark Helprin, was such a hit. Aaargh, eggheads all liked the resignation speech, do it again. There was a lovely spareness to certain small sections, and if it had been sustained, it would have resulted in elegance. Helprin had given Dole a first draft of the speech on April 22, then met with...