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...Nowadays they skip all that and rifle the corpse's pockets for letters, laundry slips, and just about anything else that will help sell the poor man's story to the movies, TV and even Broadway. Biographies, long the mainstay of the reading public, have become the hottest items in show business. Hardly has a celebrity finished his life-and often only half his life-than some producer is looking for writers and actors to do an instant replay...
Wiesel's hottest outrage is reserved for the so-called scholarship of revisionists who call the Holocaust a myth, or in the words of Northwestern Professor Arthur Butz, "the hoax of the century." Replies Wiesel: "Where has a people disap peared? Where are they hiding?" In fury, he asks why academics have not boycot ted Butz and why students have not walked out on his classes...
...hottest topic at parties? After the Red Sox and Doonesbury of course, it's that gossip column Ear from the Washington Post that the Hub gets in the Herald American...
...brisk traffic in mementos is even beginning to spread to other countries, as white Rhodesians emigrate abroad at the rate of 1,000 a month. Currently one of the hottest items on the memorabilia market harks back to Cecil Rhodes' colonization in 1889 of the country that bears his name. This is the green-and-white Rhodesian flag, which bears the Rhodes family arms (lion passant between two thistles). A 6-ft. by 3-ft. Rhodesian flag that retails for $18 in Salisbury now costs...
Ironically, the hottest tickets in town were to Janáček's three weak operas (Šárka, The Beginning of a Romance, Fate), collectors' items so rarely performed or recorded that they virtually had to be heard in Brno...