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Lona Williams' script has more lutefisk and Lutheran gags than a year of A Prairie Home Companion. Williams and director Michael Patrick Jann are as eager to deride Middle America, with its oppressively cheerful whiteness, as they were to exploit the area's hospitality; the film was shot in half a dozen Minnesota towns. As Amber says, "The whole thing's kinda sad and lame at the same time...
Being right--accurate--has been important to Wolfe since his earliest days as a New Journalist, when he wrote feature stories so vividly, employing such a wide array of techniques borrowed from fiction that some readers didn't believe they could be true. Jann Wenner, founder, editor and publisher of Rolling Stone, opened his magazine's pages to early versions of The Right Stuff, Bonfire and A Man in Full, and is a Wolfe friend and fan. "Many years ago, he used to get knocked for making stuff up," Wenner says. "But in my experience with him, which...
This is a story of a pot of gold, but instead of a rainbow, there's a lawsuit over it. Next Monday JANN WENNER is due to show up in Idaho with a mason jar of old gold coins as the first step in a court case over who owns it. Construction worker GREGORY CORLISS, above, right, claims he was digging a driveway on Wenner's woodsy hideaway in Idaho when he noticed some coins in the soil. On further inspection, he and his boss, LARRY ANDERSON, found a mason jar full of them, dating from 1857 to 1914. Corliss...
...roll. "I have been subjected--I guess that's the word--to that music by my children for years," he says. "So we have lots of records at home. But I never played them very much." Yet after Atlantic Records co-chairman Ahmet Ertegun and Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner took him on a trip to Graceland and New Orleans to learn more about rock, Pei got interested. (He now listens to some rock, though he admits it's mostly oldies. "I haven't gone very far beyond the Beatles," he says...
...solo or accompanied, ever since. Another television journalist, Barbara Walters, then 43, also made the 1974 list. TIME called her "TV's first lady of talk," and if she has ceded that title to Oprah Winfrey, she remains an institution -- TV's first first lady of talk. Jann Wenner's name appears two places below Walters'; the 28-year old founder of Rolling Stone was then known to his staff as "Citizen Wenner," we reported. That year his publishing interests grossed $6 million; for 1993 the figure was more than $100 million. When another magazine editor, R. Emmett Tyrrell...