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...folk music. By the time I was 21, I had my first record, and my career was thriving. I was shuttling between Connecticut and the folk venues of Greenwich Village and traveling the circuit throughout the country, getting to know kindred spirits such as Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary. I lent my support by singing in Mississippi during the voter-registration drive for African Americans in 1964 and at rallies protesting the Vietnam...
Last week, Wayne Leonard Hoffman, 45, was arrested for driving under the influence, even though at the time of his arrest he was outside of his car in the parking lot of a gas station...
...America ready to make a pornographer into the next Tony Soprano? Leonard and his stars say yes, on the grounds that porn is more "mainstream" than ever. It's accessible on computers, in hotel rooms, on cable; dirty movies are a punch line on Friends; Pamela Anderson voices a pole dancer on Spike TV's cartoon Stripperella; porn chic is embraced by pop stars from Blink 182 to Kid Rock to Madonna...
...chip hotel chains, media companies and cable operators (such as Time Warner, the parent company of TIME). In the pilot, Goldman's company negotiates a partnership with DirecTV--the satellite service that, in real life, Fox's parent company, News Corp., has struck a deal to control. "Certainly," says Leonard dryly, "[Fox] asked us to change the name of the company" in the version that will...
...Pancho Gonzales on the tennis court. He has fumbled handoffs as a training-camp quarterback for the Detroit Lions and missed baskets while working out as a forward for the Boston Celtics... He toured with the New York Philharmonic as a percussionist?and was severely chastised by conductor Leonard Bernstein... among other things [Plimpton] is editor of the Paris Review, a fine literary quarterly ... Says Polish-born novelist Jerzy Kosinski: ... 'He comes closest to the American conception of what a writer ought to be?that he should not just live off the imagination, like Proust, but should re-create...