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...think there is a wide audience for these books," says Linda Grey, Bantam's vice president, publisher and editor in chief. "Ferraro, Yeager, Iacocca all have stories that are unique, and that no one else can tell. Each of these touches on things that many people want to know. In each case, the readership extends beyond the normal book-buying public...
...depends on who actually writes such autobiographies. Linda Bird Francke was signed up for the Ferraro story partly because of her success in working on the best-selling memoirs of Rosalynn Carter. The O'Neill project is in the hands of William Novak, who wrote Iacocca. "A publisher would pay a lot for Novak," says one agent. "In a business fraught with insecurity and fear, anything that reduces that fear increases in value...
...flatters, but he produces. "Hollywood's based on taking care of business," he says. "We get it done. We make it happen. For me the bottom line is getting the result I'm asked to give." Among his 90 or so celebrity clients: John Travolta, Arm-Margret, Christopher Reeve, Linda Evans, David Hasselhoff (Knight Rider), Olivia Newton-John, Dyan Cannon and Billy Crystal (who presumably would not look mahvelous without...
Johnson has no plans to retire, but he is preparing his daughter, Linda Johnson Rice, 27, to take over some day. With a B. A. in journalism from the University of Southern California, Rice is in charge of Ebony/ Jet Showcase! She says she has absorbed her father's management style: "Delegate freely . . . and check on it every chance you get." --By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Elizabeth Taylor/Chicago
...anchor and writer for 14 years at ABC and NBC, Linda Ellerbee achieved her own kind of fame as a television personality--outspoken, irreverent and insightful. She was a real-life Murphy Brown, and the rumor was that she inspired the sitcom. This month Ellerbee, 60, comes out with a new book, Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table. She spoke with TIME's ANDREA SACHS about an array of topics, from women in TV news to her battle with cancer...