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...book-publishing experience. Yet she showed a nose for hot celebrities, bringing in books by Kathie Lee Gifford, Hollywood executive Dawn Steel and even (her next project) MTV superstars Beavis and Butt-head. To admirers, Regan is a passionate editor with keen commercial instincts; to detractors, an abrasive publicity hound; to readers of gossip columns, the most entertaining book editor in New York City. Three years ago she spent five hours in jail after an argument with a police officer who, she says, taunted her cab driver (the charges were dropped). Last year she picked a fight with Madonna over...
...store, which has hosted well-known poetsfrom Robert Lowell to Robert Bly, is also famedfor a somewhat mangy canine former resident,Pumpkin the dog. Pumpkin, a beagle-hound mix, wasonce featured in the Harvard Yearbook but is nowdeceased...
Behind the bink is Ely (pronounced E-lee) Callaway, 74, a Georgia-born supersalesman with L.B.J.-style hound-dog ears and aggressive charm. Already wealthy and successful at 54, he left the presidency of Burlington Industries to buy a 150-acre vineyard in Temecula, California. Rather than sit around and watch his grapes grow, Callaway developed top-grade wines and promoted them by traveling and offering low-cost oenophile seminars to hotel and restaurant employees. By 1982 Callaway was selling 73,000 cases annually...
...critics, dealers and museum folk peering into the demitasse of his talent and declaring it an oracular well whose contents address issues, as the phrase goes, of class, race, money, sex, obscenity, beauty, power and desire. Art is short, bibliography long. Clearly, we are in Madonnaland, where every publicity hound -- oops, semiotician of mass culture -- must have his day in the museum...
...BILL CLINTON WANTS HIS TOP OFFICIALS TO BE, IN Dwight Eisenhower's famous words, "clean as a hound's tooth," he'd better start handing out the toothpaste...