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...trappings of a media circus. Sissy Spacek showed up at a Beverly Hills, California, press conference urging health-conscious Americans to "start screaming at Congress and the White House." Mariel Hemingway spoke her mind to the New York Times on the issue of pill dosages and potency. Whoopi Goldberg, Randy Travis, Laura Dern and friends sent a videotape to Washington that included a shot of Mel Gibson being dragged from his home in handcuffs, saying "Gee guys, they were only vitamins!" A BATTLE ROYAL JELLY, proclaimed one headline writer. THE FDA'S WAR OF THE ROSE HIPS, wrote another...
...pretensions of the journalistic class. This is a relatively new thing in American journalism, because only in the past half-century have journalists had anything to be pretentious about. Some of the great names of American writing cut their teeth in the press -- Edgar Allan Poe and Ernest Hemingway. But until well into this century, most reporters fit the Duke of Wellington's description of the English soldier -- "the scum of the earth." They were lively but ignorant, and often venal. The spread of college education affected even them, however, until by now all journalists know something, though perhaps less...
Diehard optimism, however, comes with the territory. "Hope's native home," Wallace Stegner, the Hemingway of the Rockies, called the West, "the youngest and the freshest of America's regions, magnificently endowed and with a chance to become something unprecedented." And he wrote, "Nothing would gratify me more than to see it . . . both prosperous and environmentally healthy, with a civilization to match its scenery." If the Rockies find that state of grace, the cry around America will continue to be "Head for the hills...
Maybe the youngsters will move upward in their tastes, through Stephen King and V.C. Andrews to Hemingway, Joyce and Shakespeare. Or maybe they will boil the cat in the spaghetti...
This is where Ernest Hemingway spent his summers as a boy, and where many of his stories were conceived...