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...name of suspect Theodore Kaczynski on the November ballot. "The Unabomber is the only candidate really addressing the issues, which are the destruction of wild nature and the increasing poverty and destruction of our daily lives because of the onslaught of technology," explains UNAPACK's chief organizer, Chris Korda. "This is no joke...
...warrior and a big softie. At Ronald Reagan's 85th birthday party, Colin Powell heard the orchestra strike up the Reagans' favorite song, the Gershwins' Our Love Is Here to Stay, and sang it for Nancy. "Rich baritone," said bandleader Murray Korda...
...recent works by hot novelists like Michael Crichton and John Grisham, Evans got a bigger publishing advance--and more money from Hollywood--than any other first novelist in history. "It's probably good that, once in a while, someone proves the brass ring can be snatched," says Michael Korda, editor in chief at Simon & Schuster. "Otherwise, it's like a casino where none of the slot machines ever...
...late 18th century's hottest couple: Lord Nelson, Britain's greatest naval hero, and Lady Emma Hamilton, the empire's most luscious pinup -- and wife of diplomat Sir William Hamilton. The story has usually been told from the straightforward missionary -- not to say colonial -- position. The Alexander Korda version, That Hamilton Woman, starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, was Winston Churchill's favorite movie...
...both good art and bad art are as sleazy as life itself, and never mind morality. The difference, irritatingly circular, is that good art is good. Korda's shabby novel is a snooze, perhaps because, having purloined his characters, he never felt they were really his to order around. The story does not wake up fully even when Felicia, as Desdemona, runs wildly from the theater because she objects to being strangled. The gossip supplied is that Felicia was a victim of incest, Vane a man of pallid sexuality and, oh dear, some great British Shakespeareans were homosexuals. A wholly...