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...under the strain. "You kind of get addicted," he confessed, "to being in touch with everything at all times." Cut off from his e-mail, he felt alone, adrift. "You can exist without it, sure," he said. "You're just sort of living in a different milieu." Worse, the journalist learned he wasn't able to write coherent sentences without his word processor. "The new style becomes a scribbly, scratchy mess covered with arrows," he wrote in his column...
...afraid the true reason is that a great many writers lack noble virtue. Their mode of warfare is the sneak attack; their shots are cowardly and cheap. A few years ago, a writer of movie scripts sucker-punched a journalist while he was sitting at a New York City restaurant and knocked him to the floor. People were shocked that he hadn't stabbed him in the back...
...mold. Leta Nolan Childers of Fort Pierre, S.D., writes novels she calls "comedy romances" that combine the passion of conventional bodice rippers with a dose of silliness. In 1998 she turned to e-imprint DiskUs Publishing, then a tiny operation run by free-lance journalist Marilyn Nesbitt out of her house in Albany, Ind. Childers' submission, The Best Laid Plans, was accepted within weeks and went on sale in January 1999. She became probably the top-selling e-author in the U.S.--and possibly the world--by selling more than 6,000 copies of The Best Laid Plans...
...Miami bureau chief, has covered Latin America since 1989, but as the parent of a 5-year-old boy, he was particularly intrigued by the international tug-of-war over this week's cover subject, Elian Gonzalez. "It's been painful as a father as well as a journalist to watch Elian have to endure this interruption in his blossoming," says Padgett. With the assistance of stringer Dolly Mascarenas , Padgett interviewed Elian's relatives in Florida and Cuba. "Both families are decent, sincere people who obviously care a lot for Elian," says Padgett. But the INS ruling returning...
...Watson with a sweet voice and eyes that beam happily for once, step off the streets and into the lead of Blitzstein's play. A giddy socialite (Vanessa Redgrave) departs from the conservative wishes of her husband, publishing giant William Randolph Hearst, to join the theatrical cause. Italian journalist Margherita Sarfatti (Susan Sarandon) tries to make Mussolini's fascism palatable to American industrialists through artistic exchange...