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...Saturday, Aug. 19, Levin and his wife flew to Montana for lunch at Turner's ranch. His wife, Jane Fonda, drove out to the local airport to meet the Time Warner business jet while Turner made sure lunch was ready. That day Levin laid out the details of the offer, which was the best deal Tur ner had seen for selling the company he had been building for more than 25 years...
...days of Roseanne Roseannadanna and "Jane, you ignorant slut!" are long gone. But to those who cannot remember them, the Saturday Night Live of the mid-1990s must seem like some flavorless leftover that Mom and Dad--those mockable aging baby boomers--refuse to discard from the fridge. Still, the fate of Lorne Michaels' legendary, revolutionary late-night comedy show continues to fascinate as almost no other show on TV does; what happens to it matters...
...question about it, Larry McMurtry's shaggy new novel Dead Man's Walk (Simon & Schuster; 477 pages; $26) passes the all-important "Call me Ishmael" test. Its first line is "Matilda Jane Roberts was naked as the air." After that start, the narration wafts aloft into further elegant absurdity, as follows: "Known throughout south Texas as the Great Western, she came walking up from the muddy Rio Grande holding a big snapping turtle by the tail. Matilda was almost as large as the skinny little Mexican mustang Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call were trying to saddle-break...
...JANE AUSTEN MAY HAVE BEEN A lesbian [PEOPLE, Aug. 14]. As a dedicated Austenite, my reaction is, Who cares? The practice of psychoanalyzing historical characters is interesting but suspect, since the people involved can no longer speak for themselves. Another questionable practice is the attempt to interpret the love language of women in another era. Jane's sister Cassandra herself expurgated Austen's letters; it is obvious she found nothing "homoerotic" about what was left. We know this about Jane Austen: she wrote six great novels and several tantalizing fragments. We also know that she remained unattached throughout her life...
...ITEM ABOUT THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION of Jane Austen, I am said to be "miffed" at the public response to the thesis--supposedly bruited by me--that Austen might have been gay. In an essay on Austen in the London Review of Books, I discussed Austen's profound emotional bond with her sister, but I did not say that I thought she was homosexual in any self-conscious or active way or that she had sex with her sister. My remarks have been sensationalized by the British press, and I am afraid you have simply followed suit. TERRY CASTLE, Professor Department...