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...write books that I need," says best-selling author Iris Krasnow, 51. Her first book, Surrendering to Motherhood, grew out of her decision to give up a globetrotting reporting job with United Press International to stay home with her four young children. Likewise, her latest, I Am My Mother's Daughter: Making Peace with Mom--Before It's Too Late (Basic), grew out of her rocky relationship with her mother Helene. TIME's ANDREA SACHS got together with Krasnow...
...released by the National Marriage Project in June, 94% of single people in their 20s say that, first and foremost, they want their future spouse to be their "soul mate." But this concept of soul mates and the quest for perfection are what gets couples in trouble, says Iris Krasnow, author of Surrendering to Marriage. Krasnow taped hundreds of hours of interviews with married or formerly married couples. "You don't get sustained happiness from marriage, so if you expect this fantasy happiness, you're always going to be disappointed," she says. The couples in her book who seem...
...videos and promoting her music. As is true with the film industry, a new monetary bench mark like Jackson's becomes the standard by which every star in town measures his or her ego. "The bigger the deals get, obviously everybody starts to shoot for the moon," says Bob Krasnow, former chairman of Elektra Records who now runs his own record label for MCA. "The marquee value of a well-known artist's name means a lot." Accordingly, R.E.M., the Rolling Stones and Paul Simon--all of whom have deals that are close to expiring--will probably soon be shopping...
...troubling early sign for Virgin is that Jackson's current CD, the greatest-hits collection Design of a Decade 1986/1996, has performed only modestly, selling 2 million copies in three months. Says Krasnow: "If I were to pay an artist $80 million, I would want to know that I was going to sell at least 40 million units over five albums." But the only thing worse than signing superstars to deals that are too rich is not signing them at all. No record-company suit wants to be known as the guy who lost Janet Jackson. Plus big names lure...
...journalism conferences. Among participants in the 14 panel discussions are Gay Talese. Tom Wolfe, Renata Adler, James Aronson, David Halberstam, Dick Schaap, J. Anthony Lukas, Nat Hentoff, Jack Anderson, Martin Nolan, Joe McGinniss, Charles Goodell, Studs Terkel, Jimmy Breslin, Murray Kempton, Pete Hamill, Nora Ephron, Blair Clark, Erwin Krasnow, Leonard Schecter, Jim Bouton, Charlotte Curtis, Gloria Steinem, Jack Newfield, I.F. Stone, and Seymour Hersh. Noon-8, April 23 and 10-8, April 24. Martin Luther King Labor Center, 310 W. 43 St., New York. Open to the public and free. (Get there early-it'll probably be crowded...