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...fact all too similar ilk is David Felton's article on his seven years at Rolling Stone. Written in an obnoxious first-person style, the piece pretends to be an indictment couched in cutesiness, a tongue-in-cheek account of the trials and tribulations of a Rolling Stone "Lifer." Felton hurls the obligatory barbs at Wenner, whom he portrays as an insufferable tyrant prone to harassing Felton and other staffers who can't seem to meet a deadline. But it is all done in good fun, you see; despite all the apparent frustrations and hassles of working for the magazine...
When CBS News Producer Barry Lando interviewed Lieut. Colonel Anthony Herbert for a 1971 report on prisoners of war in South Viet Nam, he found the soldier too good to be true: a gung-ho, ribbon-covered lifer who was being quietly drummed out of the Army for uncovering U.S. war crimes. CBS broadcast Lando's report of Herbert's plight, and Herbert later became a talk-show hero among foes of the war; his 1973 autobiography, Soldier, hit the bestseller lists...
...funny lady who actually does ask him to sleuth down her cat. The woman, Margo Sperling, is played by Lily Tomlin. Her character comes straight out of a stock bit she does on television specials and in night-clubs: the astrology nut, pseudo-psychoanalyst and perpetual high-on-lifer all rolled into one. When Welles flashes a rod for the first time in her presence, she cheerfully informs him that "my shrink says that people who play with guns are usually impotent...
...board that he is dying, and for 500 pages First Mercantile's two highest-ranking vice presidents have at it for the top spot. One of the rivers, Alex Vandervoort, a Harvard-educated nonconformist, is the good guy, and the other, Roscoe Heyward, a neurotic First Mercantile lifer, is the bad guy. Up until about page 275 Roscoe appears to have it sewed up, but then the tide begins to turn and by the end he has botched things so badly that he is forced to jump off the Headquarters Tower and leave Alex in triumphant, if dignified control...
...LIFE EXPLOSION. Somewhere in this period comes the first emotional awareness that death will come and time is running out. The researchers see this stage as an unstable, explosive time resembling a second adolescence. All values are open to question, and the mid-lifer wonders, is there time to change? The mentor acquired in the mid-20s is cast aside, and the emphasis is on what Levinson calls BOOM-becoming one's own man. Parents are blamed for unresolved personality problems. There is "one last chance to make it big" in one's career. Does all this...