Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Warren Beatty is filming two biographies, one on Howard Hughes, the other about Radical Journalist John Reed, who witnessed the Russian Revolution in 1917 and wrote about it in Ten Days that Shook the World. One of the most sensational biographies of all involves Joan Crawford's daughter Christina, even now beavering away on a screenplay version of her best-selling assault on Joan, with Anne Bancroft tentatively booked to play Bad Mama. Broadway has not escaped the trend, and there are plans for plays based on the lives of Dorothy Parker, United Mine Workers Czar John L. Lewis...
...story of Colette's life is in her books: her childhood in a remote provincial village; the willful, vivacious mother evoked in Sido; her marriage at 20 to Henri Gauthiers-Villars (known as Willy), a shrewd, cosmopolitan literary journalist who divined her talent and sat her down to write the books that made him famous - Willy published them under his own name. Not that their secret went entirely undiscovered; "Willy ont beaucoup de talent, "remarked one critic - Willy are very talented. Colette was 33 before she left her oppressor and began to publish...
Many commentators, all too many, have followed the lead of New Journalist Tom Wolfe and accepted the '70s as the "me decade." Wolfe's term has been useful, but anyone who imagines that it is definitive has swallowed a dose of glib chic whole. The discovery of the insuperable self-centeredness of human nature did not await the '70s. Neither did the national habit of self-improvement, which was going strong when Public Man Ben Franklin was its high priest. Broadly, the premise of the "me decade" view is that great numbers of people are disdaining society...
Though the treaty is vaguer than the friendship pacts that the Soviets have signed in the past two months with Viet Nam and Ethiopia, it further confirms the fact that the softspoken, sometime journalist who heads Afghanistan's leftist Khalq (People's) Party "considers Moscow his friend, benefactor and protector," as a senior State Department official puts it. Indeed, the pro-Soviet tilt of the new rulers in Kabul, the Afghan capital, is already stirring some recriminations in Washington. U.S. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, an ardent hawk on the subject of Soviet expansionism, growled to a U.S. diplomat...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Beverly Bentley Mailer, 48, sometime actress; from Norman Mailer, 55, novelist and journalist; after 15 years of marriage, two sons; in Barnstable, Mass. Mrs. Mailer, the writer's fourth wife, blames her husband's "many affairs" for her suit. Mailer currently lives with Model Norris Church, who gave birth to his eighth child last spring...