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...notes ring loudest in The King and I, a tart tell-all due in October from Herbert Breslin, LUCIANO PAVAROTTI'S former publicist. In this tale of "a beautiful, simple, lovely guy who turned into a very determined, aggressive and somewhat unhappy superstar," Breslin claims Pavarotti lip-synchs when he's tired, often forgets lyrics and calls pals "stupido." The round-bellied tenor requires a limo to travel just a block, says Breslin, and "has to have gained and lost more than 5,000 pounds" during their 36year partnership. In a 2003 interview in the book, Pavarotti says, "Herbert...
...change. I think there's a phoniness to the politics of people who on matters of conscience and matters of deep-rooted belief change." The last time a presidential nominee tapped one of his former rivals to be his running mate, Kerry noted, "I watched George Herbert Walker Bush in one day go from pro-choice to pro-life. Uh-uh--not this team...
America's Presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it. But only John Adams and Herbert Hoover lived past 90; Ronald Reagan was the third, and perhaps the only one to achieve the goal of dying young as late as possible. When he passed away last week at age 93, he had long been gone from the public stage; but that meant that people remembered him as he had always been, a man of easy grace and endless hope, whose hair would...
Sweden's murder rate, for example (167 in 2001), is downright puny compared with ours, but that hasn't stopped Henning Mankell. His latest novel, The Return of the Dancing Master (New Press; 391 pages), gives homicide a moody elegance. The victim, Herbert Molin, was a retired police officer with a fondness for jigsaw puzzles who lived in a remote, wooded part of the country. So why would somebody take the trouble to whip every inch of skin off his back and the soles of his feet? And why would that person leave behind bloody footprints in the pattern...
...just come from working out five days a week at the MAC. Men are increasingly emphasizing the importance of their diets in the pursuit of a perfect body. “I think a lot of guys watch what they eat more these days,” says Herbert. He also notes that dieting, a historically female fad, is now very mainstream for males...