Word: journalism
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...Stein became a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where a rant about racist writing on The Jeffersons led to a job as a creative consultant for Norman Lear. Stein left D.C. for L.A., where he continued to write columns for publications ranging from Penthouse to Barron's, along with screenplays. John Hughes hired him when he was 40 to play a teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, asking him to speak extemporaneously on economics to a class. When Stein received applause from the crew members, he figured it was for successfully explaining the Hawley-Smoot Tariff...
...some new drugs are generating a lot of medical buzz, including a special session at the recent meeting of the American College of Rheumatology in Boston and several reports in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association. In one study, researchers compared Celebrex, one of the so-called COX-II inhibitors (they attack an enzyme, COX-II, that promotes inflammation) to naproxen, a commonly used NSAID. Both reduced the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. But while 26% of the naproxen patients got an ulcer in either the stomach or the small intestine, ulcers struck only...
...basic cable is most animated when talking about Hollywood and its beautiful women. Perhaps Stein's oddest avocation is being a financial guru to hookers. "Aside from practicing pimps, nobody knows as many call girls as I do," he says. It began when Stein was a columnist for the Journal, spending his afternoons by the pool in his West Hollywood apartment building, which was populated by call girls. "I think I put a couple of them in Berkshire Hathaway and made them a lot of money," he says. His skills are so well known, he boasts, that pros...
Starting, no doubt, with Cynthia Tucker, who edits the editorial page of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. These two brilliant black people have been waging an epic feud since the mayor took office six years ago. Campbell says Tucker suffers from a "slave mentality" that causes her to be "more vicious than white journalists." She says Campbell is "strident," "vain" and "out of control...
Sources: Good News--Journal of the American Medical Association (11/24/99); American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (12/99). Bad News (both)-- New England Journal of Medicine (11/25/99...