Word: kleine
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...focus so explicitly on the relationship between the fun-loving, womanizing John Kennedy and the more aloof Jackie--perhaps no one dared do so until Jackie was safely in her grave. But though both Christopher Andersen's Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage (Morrow; $24) and Edward Klein's All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy (Pocket Books; $23) purport to be about the marriage, what they are mainly about is sex, sex, sex--with the emphasis on extramarital...
...know Joe Klein. Joe Klein is a friend of mine. Joe Klein is no liar--or is he? I'm just one among many to whom Newsweek's Klein denied, repeatedly and with increasing indignation, that he was Anonymous, author of Primary Colors, an unflattering novel based on the Clinton campaign. At first his denials were coy, but after New York magazine offered convincing proof in February that he was the one, Klein became adamant--and even abusive--until last Wednesday, when he was finally exposed by a handwriting analysis in the Washington Post. In fact, one of his worst...
...Klein now says that throughout that weekend he was actually "in agony." When I pointed out that he appeared quite happy as he ate dinner with me and some others at the Bedford Inn, he said, "Well, I've learned that I'm quite a good actor. Anyway, that piece was insulting, inaccurate and ridiculous." But wasn't it also right? "At the time I was caught between two ethical systems: that of Anonymous and his commitment to the book, and that of a journalist. I was Anonymous then...
Well, this is an extreme case of why God created editors. But in this instance, Newsweek editor Maynard Parker--the only person besides Klein's wife and agent who knew his identity--seemed to have also believed in the existence of Anonymous, who had an exemption to the Eighth Commandment. Parker now says that in February, "I warned Joe that those unequivocal statements were going to cause him trouble. It's never a good idea not to tell the truth." But Joe didn't listen--the whodunit gimmick was boosting sales--and Parker didn't insist. Instead, Parker published...
Last Wednesday, Parker started out with the same attitude as Klein, trivializing the brouhaha over Anonymous as the equivalent of "Who Shot J.R." and counseling critics to "get a life." But by Friday, after a slew of negative comments from other journalists, culminating in a blistering New York Times editorial that called Klein's actions "corrupt," the mood changed. Klein, cocky during his press conference, became more subdued as he suffered the contempt of his colleagues. "The public looks at us as people who make judgments about character,'' said nbc News Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert. "When they...