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...wasn't my intention for him to do it as a film," recalls Nora Ephron, 44. "I just wanted him to read it." But Director Mike Nichols, 53, thought Heartburn, Ephron's best-selling novel that resembles the breakup of her marriage to Watergate Journalist Carl Bernstein, 41, would make a good movie, and the rest, as they say, is history, or maybe her-story. Now filming in New York City, Heartburn stars Meryl Streep, 35, as the jilted cookbook writer, and Jack Nicholson, 48, as the man who gives her marital indigestion. Nicholson is replacing Mandy Patinkin...
...incident illustrates the sometimes impossible task Speakes faces in balancing the questions of a properly inquisitive press against the wishes of the First Family. Though Speakes initially had replied "sure" to a journalist's query about whether a biopsy would be done, Nancy Reagan remained adamant that as little as possible be released about the operation. Speakes, backed by White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, tried to persuade her to be more forthcoming, but to no avail. After Mrs. Reagan received preliminary findings of the biopsy, she decided to wait and tell her husband the next day, when...
...fresh crop, mostly from other hands. The styles range from taut police procedurals to literary romps, from old-fashioned puzzles to breezily constructed thrillers. These days the detective may be a policeman, a private eye or a blueblood amateur, as of old. The detective may also be a prying journalist, a homosexual, a woman or an eight-year-old boy. Among the best now on bookstore shelves...
...will be profiled. Judging will be conducted by TIME and panels of distinguished educators and community leaders. To launch the awards, TIME last month published a special section in its campus editions called "Portraits in Excellence," in which 14 illustrious former college students, including Astronomer Carl Sagan, Journalist Barbara Walters, Architect I.M. Pei, Choreographer Agnes de Mille and IBM Board Chairman John Opel, were asked to look back at their school years and reflect on the question "What prepared you to excel, and why?" We hope the answers will provide inspiration for today's college achievers...
...depression is the constant enemy of any defector, and Soviets seem especially prone to what intelligence experts call "the postpartum blues." Yurchenko's case reminded many diplomats of Soviet Journalist Oleg Bitov, who returned to Moscow last year after defecting to Great Britain in 1983. Though Bitov offered a kidnap tale similar to Yurchenko's, British officials are convinced that both men simply had a change of heart. "A feeling arises that . . . 'Mother Russia beckons,' that the West, nice as it has been, is not 'me,' " explains a British intelligence officer...